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

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