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

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

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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