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

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

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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