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

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

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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