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

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

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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