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

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

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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