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

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

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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