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

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