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

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

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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