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

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

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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