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

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

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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