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

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

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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