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

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

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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