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

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

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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