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

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