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

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

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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