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

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