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

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

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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