• At the end of October, Justice Richard Goldstone, Chair of III's IACCourt Treaty Committee, will be presenting the IACCourt proposal at the G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group meeting in South Africa.
• In November, Judge Mark Wolf, Chair of III, will be in London to meet with key stakeholders in government and to celebrate the courage of human rights and anti-corruption activists at the Magnitsky Awards.
• November 7-11, Ian Lynch, Executive Director of III, will be in Berlin for the General Assembly of the World Liberty Congress - the world's largest action-oriented movement of activists standing against autocracy and defending democracy.
• November 20-24, Dr. Charles Adeogun-Phillips SAN, Vice Chair of III, will travel to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia to speak about the IACCourt at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference and meet with local civil society.
• December 14-19, Serena Ibrahim, III Board Member, and others will represent III at the UN Convention against Corruption Conference of States Parties (COSP11) in Doha, Qatar.

• new members of III's Board;
• the upcoming launch of the Coalition for the IACCourt;
• a new policy brief on the drafting of the IACCourt treaty;
• recent global advocacy for the IACCourt;
• Voices from the III Youth Leaders Network;
• other anti-corruption developments from Ukraine to the U.S.;
• and additional upcoming events and media coverage.

Dr. Charles Adeogun-Phillips SAN Lecture
for the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit

42nd Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime

Brig. Gen. Dan Kuwali Lecture
at the University of Malawi

AfriqueEurope Conference in Mozambique

Frontiers of Asset Recovery Conference 2025

Judge Mark Wolf Discussion on the IACCourt
at the Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics

Prosper Simbarashe Maguchu Lecture
at the University of Western Cape, South Africa

Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
event at Stellenbosch University

Values 20 (V20) South Africa Summit

The V20 South Africa Summit in Cape Town this week will explore South Africa’s role in the global economy and present this year’s V20 Communiqué, emphasizing the integration of shared values into policies and actions in the lead-up to South Africa’s G20 Presidency in November.

The Summit will feature a lecture moderated by Koogan Pillay on "Countering Corruption & Building an Inclusive Economy". Justice Richard Goldstone will discuss the IACCourt with fellow panelists who include:

• Adv. Andy Mothibi - Chairperson of the G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group and Head of South Africa's Special Investigating Unit
• Prof. Somadoda Fikeni - Chairperson of South Africa's Public Service Commission

International Law & Anti-Corruption Measures Webinar

On October 15, the International Law Association of Canada hosted a webinar on International Law and Anti-Corruption Measures.

III Board member Allan Rock KC spoke about the IACCourt as a comprehensive and practical mechanism for ensuring accountability in cases of grand corruption, while III Treaty Drafting Committee member Rob Currie KC highlighted the Court’s innovative Assets Division, which is designed to return and repurpose stolen assets for public benefit.

October 23:
Fighting Grand Corruption and State Capture: Human Rights-Based Tools and Strategies

October 29:
Liberation and Corruption: Why Freedom Movements Fail
- with Peter Hain at King's College London

October 30:
Unmasking Corruption and Breaking the Silence: Revealing the Deep Human Cost Across Africa's Youth

The webinar will bring together youth leaders, activists, and experts from across Africa to explore corruption’s deep and often overlooked human toll on young people’s lives and futures.

For further information, please reach out to III's Youth Leaders Network Coordinator Marjeela Basij-Rasikh: marjeela.basijrasikh@integrityinitiatives.org

November 13:
Commonwealth Lawyers Association webinar on the IACCourt

• Justice Richard Goldstone - III Board Member and former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
• Cynthia Gabriel - Founding Director of the Center to Combat Corruption and Cronyism in Malaysia
• Prof. Prosper Simbarashe Maguchu - assistant professor of law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam specializing in financial crimes and international asset recovery from a human rights-based approach

Updates on the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)

In an article for Just Security, Bruce Swartz (former U.S. Deputy Assistant Attorney General) and co-authors examine the U.S. administration’s sweeping efforts to halt enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)—a landmark U.S. law that has long served as a cornerstone of the global fight against corruption. Despite executive orders pausing enforcement against U.S. companies, the authors argue that the FCPA’s core principles remain embedded in international treaties and state laws—and that companies engaging in bribery may still face prosecution from foreign or state authorities, or future federal administrations.

Read the full article here: Hard to Kill: The Transnational Survival of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

Ukrainians Rally to Defend Anti-Corruption Institutions

This summer, Ukrainians—alongside civil society leaders, anti-corruption agencies, and international allies—successfully pushed back against legislation that would have undermined the independence of key anti-corruption bodies. After public outcry and swift diplomatic pressure from European leaders, President Zelenskyy committed to involving both civil society and anti-corruption agencies in rapidly drafting and adopting a new law.

As Josh Rudolph writes in Just Security, this episode underscores the importance of strong, public international responses to democratic backsliding—even in wartime.

Read the full article here: Ukrainians and Their Allies Defend the Rule of Law

In August, a group of UN experts issued an unprecedented joint statement urging States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) to protect and expand civic space in anti-corruption processes and strengthen the transparency and inclusiveness of the UNCAC review mechanism. Read their press release here.

The UNCAC Coalition, of which III is a member, has welcomed this call to action. The experts emphasized that many governments are failing to uphold their commitments under Article 13 of the Convention and urged reforms to ensure meaningful civil society participation, transparency in country reviews, and protection for anti-corruption defenders.

They also called for stronger collaboration between UNCAC and UN human rights bodies, affirming that civil society is an indispensable partner in combating corruption and promoting human rights.

Read the UNCAC Coalition’s statement here.

THE IACCourt IN THE NEWS

• The article is in Persian. To watch the video interview in English with Persian subtitles, click the link below:

• "The 20th anniversary of R2P should not be an occasion for polite remembrance. It is a reminder of what is at stake when the world loses standards. The plight of civilians in armed conflict is the defining moral challenge of our time. Canada once led the way in placing civilian protection at the heart of international security, and in a fractured world, we can – and should – do so again."

• "Now, as chair of Integrity Initiatives International, Mr Wolf wants to turn his legal and investigative talents to help set up an International Anti-Corruption Court (IACC), opening up developing countries to legitimate sources of investment. His many years’ experience of dealing with financial chicanery will not go amiss."

• "First’s activist research was never just about producing knowledge. It was about shifting the terms of debate, empowering those on the front lines and insisting that truth-telling is a form of solidarity. In South Africa today, where corruption corrodes trust and undermines development, adopting her principles could reinvigorate advocacy."

• "The foundation of any just society rests on the recognition and respect for the dignity of its people, and the corresponding role of the state to respect, protect, promote and fulfil that right. Yet, across the African continent – and indeed the globe – grand corruption continues to erode this very dignity. When public resources are plundered for private gain, trust in institutions is shattered, opportunities are stolen, and lives are diminished."

• "It seems that criminal elements are firmly embedded in our political systems in a way that compromises our leaders and disempowers them from acting. It is a total failure to deal with corruption, year after year."

• "The proposed international anti-corruption court (IACCourt) could usher in what you might call International Courts 3.0. It sets out to achieve what no global court has done before: tackle transnational corruption, a crime so widespread and damaging that, despite being classified as a treaty crime under international law, it is still not recognised as a crime in some jurisdictions."

• "Private unelected persons, such as the Guptas, the Watsons and others, in collusion with state actors, siphoned off billions of rand from the government in various nefarious deals... Now we have the historical record, the findings and the recommendations. Where are the prosecutions? How much money has been stolen, how much has been traced, and how much has been recovered?"