We, conscious of the fact that corruption plagues the modern world,

Raymond Henault
Canada
Dalia Grybauskaitė
Lithuania
Matthew Caruana Galizia
Malta
Roy Cullen
Canada
Albie Sachs
South Africa
Angela Reitmaier
Germany
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca
Malta
Rexhep Meidani
Albania
Garry W.G. Clement
Canada
Joe Clark
Canada
Cameron Ross
Canada
Jack Mintz
Canada
Jose Ramos-Horta
Timor-Leste
Deval Patrick
United States
David B. Collins
Canada
Sir Jeffrey Jowell
United Kingdom
Iegor Soboliev
Ukraine
Francisco Sagasti
Peru
Joseph Ingram
Canada
Wolfgang Ischinger
Germany
Demas Kiprono
Kenya
Zlatko Lagumdzija
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Tymon Motlhasedi Katlholo
Botswana
Sabrina Pignedoli
Italy
Andrey Borges de Mendonça
Brazil
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
Argentina
Aminata Touré
Senegal
Raymond Baker
United States
Nuhu Ribabu
Nigeria
Donald Steinberg
United States
Juan Manuel Santos
Colombia
Elfriede Jelinek
Austria
José Ugaz
Peru
Muhammad Mohan Kittu Bin Abdullah
Malaysia
Yuan T. Lee
Taiwan
Sternford Moyo
Zimbabwe
Jean-Marie Guéhenno
France
Fausto Martin De Sanctis
Brazil
Sheldon Glashow
United States
Tarja Halonen
Finland
Paul R. Milgrom
United States
Karen Longaric
Bolivia
Anand Panyarachun
Thailand
Thomas Homer-Dixon
Canada
Beverley McLachlin
Canada
Thaméa Danelon
Brazil
Percival Noel James Patterson
Jamaica
Kim Campbell
Canada
Michael Jeffery
Canada
Marcello Ferreira de Souza Granado
Brazil
Marcelo Dolzany da Costa
Brazil
Walter Natynczyk
Canada
Alexandra Bugailiskis
Canada
Ahmedou Ould Abdallah
Mauritania
Seung-Soo Han
South Korea
Tawakkol Karman
Yemen
Kjell Magne Bondevik
Norway
James Bolger
New Zealand
Emil Bolongaita
Australia
Roger D. Kornberg
United States
Melanne Verveer
United States
Jigmi Yoser Thinley
Bhutan
T. Anthony Jones
United States
Moisés Naím
Venezuela
Cassam Uteem
Mauritius
Marc Lortie
Canada
Ricardo Lagos
Chile
Scott Clements
Canada
Seán Cleary
South Africa
Antonio Gabriel La Viña
Philippines
Lois Mitchell
Canada
Marija Pejčinović Burić
Croatia
Marcelo Costenaro Cavali
Brazil
Paul Maddison
Australia
Allan Rock
Canada
Payam Akhavan
Canada
Moncef Marzouki
Tunisia
Kabiné Komara
Guinea
Herta Müller
Germany
Carlos Alvarado
Costa Rica
Ricardo Raineri
Chile
Walter Link
Germany
Carl Bildt
Sweden
Antoine Kesia-Mbe Mindua
Democratic Republic of Congo
Anirudh Singh
India
Michael Small
Canada
Kenneth Roth
United States
Salil Shetty
India
Tiziana Beghin
Italy
Saskia Bruines
Netherlands
Garry Kasparov
Russia
Kaveh Shahrooz
Canada
Fabio Massimo Castaldo
Italy
Shirin Ebadi
Iran
Risa Hontiveros
Philippines
Charles Adeogun-Phillips
Nigeria
Mark L. Wolf
United States
Adrienne Clarkson
Canada
Harvey J. Alter
United States
Cynthia Gabriel
Malaysia
Kailash Satyarthi
India
Leymah Roberta Gbowee
Liberia
Slagjana Taseva
North Macedonia
Mohamed Chande Othman
Tanzania
Marc Caron
Canada
Chris O’Connor
United Kingdom
Sima Samar
Afghanistan
Landon Butler
United States
Laura Chinchilla
Costa Rica
Murray Farmer
Canada
Olanrewaju Suraju
Nigeria
Lord David Alton
United Kingdom
Cheselden George Vida Carmona
Philippines
Fernando A. Iglesias
Argentina
Guy Thibault
Canada
Mairead Corrigan-Maguire
Northern Ireland
Mo Ibrahim
Sudan
John C. Mather
United States
Gordon Brown
United Kingdom
Jan Peter Balkenende
Netherlands
Camelia Bogdan
Romania
John Nery
Philippines
Mauricio Macri
Argentina
John Bruton
Ireland
David Pratt
Canada
Rosen Plevneliev
Bulgaria
Claudia Escobar Mejía
Guatemala
Paul Hoffman
South Africa
Mervyn Eldred King
South Africa
Kishore Mabubhani
Singapore
Karam Singh
South Africa
Jorge Fernando Quiroga
Bolivia
Mary Collins
Canada
Chile Eboe-Osuji
Nigeria
Andrea Ngombet
Republic of the Congo
Katherine Marshall
United States
Guy Tousignant
Canada
Tad Daley
United States
Rigoberta Menchú Tum
Guatemala
Lawrence Gonzi
Malta
Stefaan De Clerck
Belgium
Bernard Karganilla
Philippines
Geoffrey Robertson
United Kingdom
ANM Muniruzzaman
Bangladesh
Marc Tassé
Canada
Sir Bill Browder
United Kingdom
Baroness Lynda Chalker
United Kingdom
Lord David Maxim Triesman
United Kingdom
Robinson Fernandes
Brazil
Larry Pressler
United States
James Michel
Seychelles
Matar Diop
Senegal
Richard Goldstone
South Africa
Mehdi Jomaa
Tunisia
Bonnie Rawlins
Canada
Lord George Robertson
United Kingdom
Carlos Silvani
Argentina
Doug Mitchell
Canada
Iraj Abedian
South Africa
Grigory Vaypan
Russia
Aaron Ciechanover
Israel
Alexander S. Vindman
United States
Marzuki Darusman
Indonesia
Christopher Pappas
Canada
Vernon L. Smith
United States
Arthur Lyon Dahl
Switzerland
Geoffrey Cowan
United States
Camilo Enciso
Colombia
Dikgang Moseneke
South Africa
Alfredo Romero
Venezuela
Álvaro Moscoso Blanco
Bolivia
Roberto Dañino
Peru
Alfred Balm
Canada
Ricardo Luna
Peru
Gale Mohammed-Oxley
Trinidad & Tobago
Valerie Raymond (deceased)
Canada
William Graham (recently deceased)
Canada
Doris Leuthard
Switzerland
Thabo C. Makgoba
South Africa
Eric R. Kandel
United States
Modesto Souza Barros Carvalhosa
Brazil
Tassaduq Hussain Jillani
Pakistan
Ángel Alonso Arroba
Spain
Beatrice Fitch
Chile
Ben Rowswell
Canada
Farid Rohani
Canada
Elbegdorj Tsakhia
Mongolia
Edna Ramirez
Mexico
Frank G. Wisner
United States
Arieh Warshel
Israel
Cristina Manzano
Spain
Ujjal Dosanjh
Canada
Gareth Evans
Australia
Moussa Mara
Mali
Drew Christiansen, S. J.
United States
Mia Farrow
United States
Mónica Martínez
Chile
Maria Angela Danzì
Italy
John Ralston Saul
Canada
Reza Moridi
Canada
Sergio Fernando Moro
Brazil
Naheed Esar
Afghanistan
Adele Simmons
United States
Maria Wilson
Trinidad & Tobago
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
Timor-Leste
Thomas R. Pickering
United States
Barry Clark Barish
United States
Hanna Suchocka
Poland
Dadang Trisasongko
Indonesia
Dawn Vermilya
United States
Jonathan Fanton
United States
Jens Orback
Sweden
Ian Farlam
South Africa
Eneida Torres de Durand
Puerto Rico
Murray Sinclair
Canada
Barham Salih
Iraq
Lloyd Axworthy
Canada
James Cottrell, Jr.
United States
Richard J. Roberts
United Kingdom
Juhani Grossmann
Switzerland
Natalia Soebagjo
Indonesia
Guillermo de la Dehesa
Spain
Javed Noorani
Afghanistan
Ahmet Davutoğlu
Turkey
Jean-Pierre Méan
Switzerland
Gwyn Morgan
Canada
Peter Bismark
Ghana
Jeremy Kinsman
Canada
Petre Roman
Romania
Florindo Chivucute
Angola
Ivan Pavlov
Russia
Constantine Simitis
Greece
Vicente Fox
Mexico
Paul L. Modrich
United States
John Berger
United States
Francis Ben Kaifala
Sierra Leone
Maurice Baril
Canada
Thomas Lawson
Canada
Uzi Arad
Israel
Geeta Gandhi Kingdon
India
Jan van Zanen
Netherlands
Oagile Key Dingake
Botswana
Andreas Bummel
Germany
Susana Malcorra
Argentina
Paul Wynnyk
Canada
Ben Knapen
Netherlands
Haris Silajdžić
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Mohammad Farid Hamidi
Afghanistan
Douglas Fisher
Brazil
Margarita Tsatsa Nikolovska
North Macedonia
Laode M. Syarif
Indonesia
Michael Ignatieff
Canada
José Justiniano
Bolivia
Teresa Ter-Minassian
Italy
Jacques Duchesneau
Canada
Ivo Josipović
Croatia
Roberto Livianu
Brazil
Theodore Sedgwick
United States
Chester Crocker
United States
Marcus Kolga
Canada
Jody Williams
United States
Lucy Akello
Uganda
Iftekhar Zaman
Bangladesh
Lorraine Ocampos
Paraguay
Evelyn Pesantez
United States
Jean-Pelé Fomété
Cameroon
Paul Caruana Galizia
Malta
María Alejandra Gálvez Alzate
Colombia
Yves Leterme
Belgium
Cheickh Tidyane Bangoura
Canada
Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Portugal
Robert I. Rotberg
United States
Bianca Jagger
United Kingdom
Sheila Prell Sonenshine
United States
Jaime Aparicio-Otero
Bolivia
Ana Alejandrina Pineda Hernández
Honduras
Francisco A. Magno
Philippines
Osvaldo Hurtado Larrea
Ecuador
Sandra Ponce Aguilera
Honduras
Mary R. Page
United States
Dudley R. Herschbach
United States
María de los Ángeles Estrada
Mexico
Pedro M. Burelli
Venezuela
Linda Nicholls
Canada
John Githongo
Kenya
Augusto Lopez-Claros
Spain
Andrew Caruana Galizia
Malta
Sungho Kang
South Korea
Baroness Helena Kennedy
United Kingdom
Alfred Gusenbauer
Austria
David J. Bercuson
Canada
Ray Crabbe
Canada
Iveta Radičová
Slovakia
Carol W. Greider
United States
Gerardus 't Hooft
Netherlands
Hans Corell
Sweden
John R. Anderson
Canada
Manzoor Hasan
Bangladesh
Wesley K. Clark
United States
Scott Newark
Canada
John Odling-Smee
United Kingdom
Eduardo Rodríguez Veltzé
Bolivia
Karla Lini Maeji
Brazil
Peter C. Doherty
Australia
Edward Lucas
United Kingdom
Richard B. Fadden
Canada
Vladimir Kara-Murza
Russia
Melissa Garcia Blagitz de Abreu e Silva
Brazil
Peter German
Canada
Gregg L. Semenza
United States
Anne McLellan
Canada
Fred J. Green
Canada
Navi Pillay
South Africa
Jordi Solé
Spain
Steven Point
Canada
Muhammad Yunus
Bangladesh
Carlos Vargas
Venezuela
Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein
Jordan
Nicholas Coghlan
Canada
Maja Groff
Canada
Helena Malikyar
Afghanistan
Tzipi Livni
Israel
Koogan Pillay
South Africa
Peter MacKay
Canada
Danilo Türk
Slovenia
Ligia Maura Costa
Brazil
Fen Osler Hampson
Canada
Abdul Hai Patel
Canada
Tutu Alicante
Equatorial Guinea
Robert S. Gelbard
United States
Aleksander Kwaśniewski
Poland
Kenneth Watkin
Canada
Philip Murray
Canada
Wendy W. Luers
United States
Zef Preci
Albania
Matthew H. Murray
United States
Leila Nadya Sadat
United States
Neda Salmanpour
United Kingdom
Geo-Sung Kim
South Korea

call for the establishment of an International
Anti-Corruption Court.

Read our full Declaration

What is the IACC

Grand corruption – the abuse of public office for private gain by a nation's leaders (kleptocrats) – is a devastating global problem. In too many places, there is a lack of enforcement of criminal laws against corrupt acts. The IACC would be a court of last resort to hold kleptocrats and their co-conspirators accountable when national governments are unable or unwilling to do so.

How we work

A growing coalition of governments, civil society organizations, and individual citizens are working together to make the IACC a reality. Leading experts in international law are developing a proposed treaty to establish the IACC. The evolving concept of the Court benefits from the diverse input of the global network of civil society that advocates for the idea.

Why we do this

Because the world deserves better.

Roadmap to establishing the International Anti-Corruption Court

1

Declaration

First released in June 2021, more than 300 world leaders from over 80 countries —including more than 45 former presidents and prime ministers and over 30 Nobel laureates— have signed the Declaration calling for the creation of an IACC. Many more civil society organizations have joined the call. More continue to do so. These leaders, activists, and experts from diverse backgrounds are the foundation of the international campaign for the IACC.

2

International Steering Committee

Formed in July 2021, the International Steering Committee is building and leading the civil society coalition behind the campaign and contributes to strategic outreach to governments around the world. You can learn more about the Committee's members here. The Steering Committee is supported by regional Subcommittees.

3

Treaty Committee & Scholarly Review

Launched in August 2022, the IACC Treaty Committee —composed of international judges, international prosecutors, and other leading experts in international law— is working on the core principles for a draft IACC treaty.

With the support of a Drafting Committee, the Treaty Committee will then produce a draft IACC Treaty for the consideration of interested governments and consultation from civil society.

The treaty drafting process will further benefit from the feedback of an Advisory Committee composed of top international lawyers and scholars.

4

Broad and Inclusive Consultation

Once the draft IACC Treaty is complete, Integrity Initiatives International and its partners will organize a series of virtual consultations to present the draft and receive feedback from interested civil society around the world.

5

Negotiation & Adoption

Ultimately, governments will need to negotiate and sign a treaty establishing the IACC. During this phase, Integrity Initiatives International and the campaign for the IACC will monitor negotiations and work to ensure that civil society has a voice in the negotiations.

6

Ratification and Beyond

After the IACC treaty has been signed, the campaign for the IACC will continue outreach country-by-country to ensure that states ratify the treaty. Once the treaty comes into force, the campaign for the IACC will continue to monitor the implementation of the Court.

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