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

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

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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