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

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