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

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

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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