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

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

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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