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

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

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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