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

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

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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