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

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