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

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