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

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