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

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

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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