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

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

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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