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

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

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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