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

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

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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