About GID

Moral Lives Matter
Mainstream integrity into our lives, work, and world

Feature 1. Global Integrity Day (GID) is a positive day, launched on 9 June 2020, to reflect, teach, and collaborate on ways to integrate integrity in all we do throughout the entire year.  

Feature 2. GID is a strategic day to promote a) cultivating lifestyles, cultures, and systems of integrity from the individual through the international levels; b) joining together to understand and address the causes and consequences of corruption in its many forms; and c) working towards just and equitable societies marked with wellbeing for all people and for the planet.  

Feature 3. GID is a solemn day to consider our ways: if we are lying and/or stealing in any way big or small, then we need to stop it. If we need to right a wrong we have done, then do so. If we need to prudently confront wrongdoing, preferably in solidarity with colleagues for mutual support and greater impact, then do so. 

Feature 4. GID is a companion day to complement UN International Anti-Corruption Day, 9 December (and vice versa). Both Days are practical rallying points, six months apart, for fostering common ground, organizing events, sharing initiatives, affirming anti-corruption workers, and involving the public. 

The first Global Integrity Day (GID) was launched on 9 June 2020 and continues to be commemorated on 9 June 2021, 2022, and 2023. This special, annual day has been envisioned since December 2016, to shine the global spotlight on moral health for a more-whole world. It is a practical impetus as we endeavor a) to live in integrity always and in every area of our lives and b) to learn about and support a variety of strategic efforts for pro-integrity and anti-corruption ranging from developing public policy to developing personal probity.​ 

--The initial theme for this Day (GID 2020) was Confronting the Corruption of Racism. How can we positively and practically impact racism by loving truth, peace, and people?
--The theme for GID 2021 was Corruption and Poverty. How can multi-dimensional probity (integrity at a levels, individual-institutional-international) help to curtail corruption's devastating role in multi-dimensional poverty? 
--The GID 2022 theme was Integrity and Corruption in the Health Sector. How can integrity and anti-corruption efforts improve health and wellbeing for all people and the planet? We also included material on corruption and mental health.
--The theme for GID 2023 was Faith-Based Champions Fighting Corruption. What are some of the stories and strategies from the faith-based sector's efforts to live in integrity and confront corruption in its own midst and in the world?
--The theme for  GID 2024 was Fighting Human Trafficking. How can people and organizations around the world collaboratively leverage their skills and integrity to prevent and combat trafficking in persons? And to support the victims!
--The theme for GID 2025 is Empowering People to Defeat Corruption. How can we empower people to develop the virtues and skills needed to live in integrity and to fight corruption (forming the character and competence needed to resist and confront corruption)?
--The theme for GID 2026 is Breaking the Bonds of Exploitaton: Solidarity Against Corruption and Crime. How can we support the collaborative efforts between civil society and govenments to fight corruption and crime?  How can we participate in these efforts to protect and restore people and the planet from exploitation?

It would be strategic to see Global Integrity Day designated as a new United Nations International Day as well as a companion day to complement the already designated International Anti-Corruption Day, 9 December (and vice versa). Note also the International Day for the Prevention of and Fight against All Forms of Transnational Organized Crime, 15 November (see the related 2001 UN Convention HERE); UN Human Rights Day, 10 December; and World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, 30 July (note the 2025 theme: Human Trafficking Is Organized Crime–End the Exploitation). 

We invite friends and colleagues around the world, and organizations and networks large and small, to join together in solidarity, finding common ground for the common good, to commemorate both special days on 9 June and 9 December and throughout this year. Your suggestions are very welcome for developing GID further. (MCAresources@gmail.com)

See also these foundational resources from the GID coordinators:
--Examples of several UN efforts  HERE (December 2021)
--Moral Health for a More Whole World. Global Integration Update  (January 2019)
--Everyday Global Heroes: Moral Lives Matter. Global Integration Update (January 2017)