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

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

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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