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

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