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

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

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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