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

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

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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