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

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

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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