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

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

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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