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

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