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

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