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

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

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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