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

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

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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