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

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

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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