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

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