“Grand corruption is clearly a transnational issue that no one country can cope with alone. That is why a new multilateral body like the IACC is so necessary to combat it.”

Writes Justice Richard Goldstone in the Financial Times.

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“It is high time for the world, including the United States, to get behind this important initiative.”

Writes Max Boot in The Washington Post

Moldova Supports the Creation of an International Anti-Corruption Court

In March 2023, President Maia Sandu made Moldova the fifth country in the past year and a half to make a public commitment to work towards the creation of an IACC, joining Canada, Ecuador, the Netherlands, and Nigeria.

Global Governance Survey 2023 : "70% of those polled across the G7 and BRICS countries agree with the notion that an international court should be established to deal with corruption cases that national governments do not take on."

“Grand corruption - the abuse of public office for private gain by a nation’s leaders - has devastating consequences that have international impacts.”

Judge Mark Wolf, Chair of Integrity Initiatives International, discusses the International Anti-Corruption Court with Zeinab Badawi on the BBC's HARDtalk program.

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“Because grand corruption pollutes the international financial system and has other severe international consequences, it is not just a domestic problem for individual countries to address alone. Rather, it is a global problem that requires a global solution.”

III Chair Judge Mark L. Wolf and Vice-Chairs Justice Richard Goldstone and Prof. Robert Rotberg in a publication for the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

“Corruption isn’t inevitable, and it’s not unstoppable.“

Danilo Türk, former President of Slovenia and current President of Club de Madrid, calls for an International Anti-Corruption Court.

40-plus former Presidents and Prime Ministers call for an International Anti-Corruption Court. The Declaration in support of the creation of the Court has now been signed by 270 eminent individuals from 80 countries.

32 Nobel laureates have signed the Declaration in support of the creation of an International Anti-Corruption Court.

“By establishing an anti-corruption court the Netherlands aims to strengthen the international legal order.“

Wopke Hoekstra, the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, announces that the Netherlands will work with like-minded partners to establish an International Anti-Corruption Court.

Canada's Foreign Minister will "[work] with international partners to help establish an International Anti-Corruption Court, to prevent corrupt officials and authoritarian governments from impeding development that should benefit their citizens."

Integrity Initiatives International (III) is dedicated to strengthening the enforcement of criminal laws to punish and deter leaders who are corrupt and regularly violate human rights.

The 190 parties to the UN Convention Against Corruption are required to criminalize corrupt acts, and yet kleptocrats have impunity for grand corruption in the countries that they rule.

III is the leading advocate for the creation of an International Anti-Corruption Court to hold the most rapacious kleptocrats and their co-conspirators accountable when their national governments are unable or unwilling to do so. Read more about the proposed Court here.

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Watch this World Justice Forum 2022 discussion on the International Anti-Corruption Court (IACC) to learn more about the proposal for an IACC and how the IACC could fill the existing enforcement gap in the international framework against grand corruption.

Minister Wopke Hoekstra’s written speech is available here.

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Declaration in Support of the Creation of an International Anti-Corruption Court

More than 275 world leaders—including more than 40 former Heads of State and Government, over 30 Nobel laureates, many current and former government officials, and representatives of civil society, business, and faith communities—from over 80 countries call for the creation of an International Anti-Corruption Court. Find the Declaration and its signatories list here.

III is grateful for the generous support from its current and past partners

III receives funding for its advocacy for the creation of an International Anti-Corruption Court from the Sigrid Rausing Trust, the Climate Change Collaboration (Aurora Trust, JJ Charitable Trust & Mark Leonard Trust), the MacArthur Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Wayfarer Foundation, among others.

III has previously received two grants from the National Endowment for Democracy to support its work in Ukraine and programs associated with the III Youth Leaders Network.