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

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

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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