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

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