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

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

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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