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

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

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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