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

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