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

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

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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