• tomorrow's webinar to mark African Union Anti-Corruption Day;
• discussion of the IACCourt at the World Justice Forum;
• screening of the film Bribe, Inc. in The Hague;
• Voices from the III Youth Leaders Network - join us Monday for a webinar geared towards Asia-Pacific youth;
• and other recent advocacy and media coverage.

The World Justice Forum - Warsaw, Poland

Just Peace Festival - The Hague, Netherlands

• Peter Klein, the film's director;
• Rugiatu Neneh Turay-Koroma, former Deputy Minister of Sierra Leone;
• Serena Ibrahim, III Board Member and founder of Youth Against Corruption;
• and Maja Groff, III Europe Senior Treaty Advisor.

11th Annual Conference of the Commonwealth Caribbean Association of Integrity Commissions and Anti-Corruption Bodies - St. Lucia

Translations of the Policy Brief on the IACCourt and Africa

Academia against Corruption in the Americas - Bogotá, Colombia

Lecture on the IACCourt at the University of Namibia

Citizens for Global Solutions National Summit - United States

SAI-ACA Anti-Corruption Seminar - Johannesburg, South Africa

2025 Conference on Asset Forfeiture - Vancouver, Canada

US-Africa Business Summit - Luanda, Angola

Upcoming Webinar: Monday July 14

Citizens for Global Solutions National Summit

OTHER ANTI-CORRUPTION ADVOCACY

• a new comprehensive UNHRC Advisory Committee study to develop practical guidelines on implementing human rights obligations in the context of preventing and combatting corruption,
• encouragement for UNHRC mechanisms to consider corruption's impact within their mandates,
• and stronger policy coherence across UN processes.

Global Risks to the Justice System -- a Warning to America

THE IACCourt IN THE NEWS

• "The Court would be a key innovation that would complement and augment a range of other solutions, including the work pursued by Transparency International, the Financial Transparency Coalition and the GI-TOC. It would help disrupt, dismantle, and deter grand corruption and its constituent crimes, including money laundering, and it would provide an improved means to recover and return illicit assets to benefit the public good."

• "Collaboration was on full display at the conference, with governments sharing ideas on international best practices, leadership transformation, technology in anti-corruption efforts, asset declaration, and the proposed International Anti-Corruption Court."

• "There is no international mechanism for prosecuting the corrupt leaders nor one able to freeze, seize, and repatriate illicit assets at a time when they would reach the victims—often the poorest people of the states from which they have been stolen. It is in that context that I have become active in a project to establish the International Anti-Corruption Court (IACCourt)"

• "Ultimately, for asset recovery to be truly effective, it must go beyond rhetoric and weak enforcement. The proposed IACCourt’s independent legal framework, international reach, and emphasis on transparency positions it as a superior and more sustainable approach. If the goal is to create a system where no corrupt leader can safely conceal such looted assets, then the proposed IACCourt model, to my mind stands out as the most viable solution."

• "Calls for an international anti-corruption court have grown stronger, with advocates pointing to the Fishrot scandal as a clear example of why such a court is needed to handle large-scale corruption across borders."

• "The urgency of having such a court [IACCourt] has increased with recent policy shifts in the United States, particularly the freeze on much foreign aid and the potential dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)."

• "The urgency of such a court is highlighted by the growing phenomenon of state capture, where private interests hijack public institutions for personal gain. From North Africa to the South, and increasingly across East Africa, corruption is both the engine and the outcome of weakened institutions and unchecked political impunity."

• "The urgency of such a court is highlighted by the growing phenomenon of state capture, where private interests hijack public institutions for personal gain. From North Africa to the South, and increasingly across East Africa, corruption is both the engine and the outcome of weakened institutions and unchecked political impunity."

• ICYMI live, the recording of the keynote on the IACCourt by Allan Rock, former Canadian Minister of Justice, is now available below:

• "Se estima que la creacion de este nuevo organismo benefciaria el combate contra la corrupción de diferentes formas. No solo proporcionaría un foro adecuado, e incentivaría la cooperación internacional, sino que permitiría recuperar, repatriar y/o reutilizar activos robados en beneficio de las víctimas de gran corrupción a través de órdenes de restitución o desembolso, y posiblemente demandas civiles. De esta forma, disuadiría la comisión de estos delitos, y, además, podría incentivar la adopción de reformas de los sistemas de justicia nacionales que harían más factibles los procesamientos y las condenas por corrupción a gran escala."
• "The creation of this new body is expected to benefit the fight against corruption in several ways. Not only would it provide an appropriate forum and incentivize international cooperation, but it would also allow for the recovery, repatriation, and/or reuse of stolen assets for the benefit of victims of grand corruption through restitution or disbursement orders, and possibly civil lawsuits. In this way, it would deter the commission of these crimes and, furthermore, could incentivize the adoption of reforms to national justice systems that would make prosecutions and convictions for large-scale corruption more feasible."