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

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

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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