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

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

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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