Two decades after the UN formally acknowledged the disproportionate and devastating impact of armed conflict on women and girls with the landmark Security Council Resolution 1325, we speak with...
By Benedicte Aboul-Nasr, Project Officer, Transparency International – Defence & Security On October 17, 2019, Lebanese citizens took to the streets in response to a government proposal to...
Governance reforms, including to security sector, are urgently needed 23 October 2020 – Transparency International condemns the Nigerian state’s excessive use of force and the continued perpetration of...
New report warns weak regulations leave door open to undue influence October 21 – German defence policy risks being influenced by corporate interests, new research by Transparency International...
Despite promising initiatives, tackling corruption in the Nigerien security sector is still hindered by secrecy By Flora Stevens, Project Officer – Global Advocacy Africa’s Sahel has been...
31 July, London – In response to an announcement by the Serious Fraud Office that the agency has charged defence contractor GPT Special Project Management and three individuals after a long-running...
With security threatened by increasingly belligerent armed actors and a hastened drawdown of international troops due to COVID-19, Iraq cannot afford to leave its defence institutions open to corruption....
Download as PDF: Statement on the killing of George Floyd, protests in the United States, and the need for transparency in related military deployments June 10,...
This article originally appeared on the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) website. By Ara Marcen Naval and Karolina MacLachlan. Throughout the coronavirus outbreak, all eyes have been on...
By Colby Goodman This post first appeared in the March 2020 edition of The Export Practitioner. Sometimes good intentions are just good intentions. In the push for major...
Ara Marcen Naval is Head of Advocacy for Transparency International – Defence & Security. In this blog, she explains her motivations for joining the fight against corruption – and...
The theme of this year’s annual Munich Security Conference was ‘Westlessness’. Awkward to pronounce and going by the evidence, equally awkward to discuss in (polite) internationally mixed company. That...