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

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

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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