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

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

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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