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

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

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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