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15.01.2025 Roadmaps for reforms: Strengthening resilience to defence corruption in Nigeria, Tunisia, Niger and Mali

January 15, 2025 – Transparency International – Defence & Security (TI-DS) today launches a series of policy briefs examining the institutional resilience of the defence and security sectors in...

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03.11.2024 Advocating for anti-corruption in the defence and security sector: Insights from Geneva Peace Week 2024 

The Geneva Peace Week (GPW) is one of the important appointments on the international peacebuilding calendar, writes Francesca Grandi, our Senior Advocacy Expert. This year, it centred around the...

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09.10.2024 44th and 45th ASEAN Summits: Advancing regional stability and prosperity through enhanced defence governance

As members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) gather this week in Laos for the 44th and 45th ASEAN Summits, this blog by Yi Kang Choo, our...

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26.09.2024 Strengthening accountability in defence & security: Details of our upcoming access to information report

Access to information is a cornerstone of healthy, accountable and transparent societies and essential for democracy.    By improving the public’s ability to obtain and use government-held information, citizens are...

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17.09.2024 Event: The Missing Element – how addressing corruption can improve peace, security and development

Join us in New York for our Summit of the Future Action Days side event. Date: Thursday, September 19 Time: 09:00 EDT Location: Millennium Hilton New York, One UN...

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08.08.2024 A year after Niger’s coup: corruption, violence and human insecurity. What now?

A year on from the coup d’etat in Niger, Denitsa Zhelyazkova looks back at what has changed so far and what needs to happen to address corruption in the...

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01.08.2024 Militarisation, corruption, and democracy in Venezuela

Ara Marcen Naval examines how Venezuela’s military entrenchment in government and the economy undermines democracy and fuels corruption, and highlights the urgent need for transparency and civilian oversight.  ...

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31.07.2024 Corruption, the defence and security sector, and sexual and gender-based violence

This is a summary of a longer piece by our Defence & Security Gender Specialist, Sabrina White. You can read the full version here.   Corruption has gender dynamics...

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30.07.2024 Transparency International highlights risk of diminished state cooperation on West Africa’s regional security

July 30, 2024 – Transparency International Defence & Security (TI-DS) expresses deep concern that the potential ‘disintegration’ of state cooperation in West Africa could exacerbate conflict in the already...

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25.05.2024 Africa Day 2024: Combatting corruption in defence and security key to future stability and progress  

Michael Ofori-Mensah, Head of Research at Transparency International Defence & Security, said:   “On Africa Day 2024, we acknowledge the significance of this celebration and the tremendous potential for...

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07.05.2024 Betrayed by the Guardians: New report details human impact of corruption in defence & security 

May 7, 2024 – A new briefing from Transparency International Defence & Security (TI-DS) sheds light on the profound personal and societal impacts of corruption within the defence &...

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24.04.2024 New paper explores nexus between growing militarisation and defence corruption 

As world military spending hits all-time high, findings from Transparency International highlight urgent need for transparency and accountability    April 24, 2024 – Rising military expenditure is outpacing countries’...

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