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

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

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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