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

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

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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