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

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

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

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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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