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

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