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

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

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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