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

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

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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