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

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

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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