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

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

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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