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

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

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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