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

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

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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