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

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