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

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

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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