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

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

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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