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

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

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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