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

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

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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