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

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

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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