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

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

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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