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

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