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

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

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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