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

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

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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