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

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

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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