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

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