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

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

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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