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

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

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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