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

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

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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