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

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