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

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