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

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

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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