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

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