The UNCAC Coalition’s Asset Recovery working group seeks to facilitate discussions, exchange information and joint advocacy among civil society experts.
Working Group Co-Chairs:
Sara Brimbeuf, Senior advocacy officer, Illicit Financial Flows at Transparency International France.
Jackson Oldfield, Director & Co-founder of the Civil Forum for Asset Recovery (CiFAR), Germany.
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The Working Group hosts a dedicated email discussion list as well as several coordination calls per year.
Next Working Group Meeting:
Tuesday 23 May 2023, 16.00-17.30 (Vienna time)
Selected past activities and outputs on asset recovery of the working group and its members:
- Transparency International France: Handbook for Asset Restitution: Good Practices and Recommendations for the Responsible Return of Stolen Assets (June 2022)
- CIFAR: Civil Society Organisations & Asset Recovery: A Manual for Action, July 2022
- CiFAR Research paper: Best Practices and Challenges in the Management of Recovered Assets, September 2022
- Submission: Advancing the recovery of stolen assets in a transparent and accountable manner by the UNCAC Coalition’s Asset Recovery Working Group to the Independent Expert on Foreign Debt and Human Rights, 31 August 2022
- Commentary: From Freeze to Seize: Dealing with Oligarch’s Assets in the UK, RUSI, 13 April 2022
- Blog: The UK’s new framework for transparent and accountable asset return – putting this global precedent into perspective and practice, Spotlight on Corruption, 21 January 2022
- Working Group submission to the 9th UNCAC CoSP (CoSP 9) on Advancing Asset Recovery, 7 December 2021
- What is the key to improving Asset Recovery? A summary of our IRG side event, 17 September 2021
- UNCAC Coalition Asset Recovery page
- Blog: Switzerland and Uzbekistan sign agreement on return of USD 131 million – Statement by Uzbek Civil Society Activists, 16 September 2020
- Submission: Transparency International and UNCAC Coalition Submission to the UNGASS against Corruption: Proposal for a Multilateral Agreement on Asset Recovery, 12 June 2020
- Blog: Working Group on Asset Recovery – Document Review, 3 May 2019
- Statement: Civil Society Statement for the UNCAC Working Group on Asset Recovery Session June 2018, 6 June 2018
- Statement: Civil Society Statement for the Global Forum on Asset Recovery, 4 December 2017
- Submission: UNCAC Coalition statement to the 7th Conference of States Parties in Vienna, 6-10 November 2017