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

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

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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