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

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

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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