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

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

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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