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

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

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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