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

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

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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