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

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

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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