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

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