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Nearly every country has criminalized public bribery, embezzlement of public resources, and money laundering. But in too many countries, kleptocrats abuse their power to control the police, prosecutors, and courts that should enforce those laws, allowing them to act with impunity.

Judge (ret.) Mark L. Wolf proposed a solution: an International Anti-Corruption Court (IACC), a court of last resort that could act when national governments are unable or unwilling to. In 2016, joined by Justice Richard Goldstone of South Africa, the first Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and other colleagues, Judge Wolf founded Integrity Initiatives International (III) to turn that idea into reality, and to strengthen the fight against grand corruption at every level.

The IACC proposal is now the shared goal of a global and diverse movement of public, civil society, corporate, and academic leaders. To lay the conceptual foundations for an effective Court, in 2024, III launched a pro bono expert group of high court judges, international lawyers, scholars, and other anti-corruption practitioners to draft a proposed IACC treaty. To galvanize and organize widespread interest in the IACC idea, in 2025, III launched the Coalition for the IACC. It leads the Coalition with joint secretariat support from Good Governance Africa and III Europe.