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

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

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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