United Nations Convention Against Corruption

Exactly.

Now, you also say that there are measures the UN Convention Against Corruption can provide here, and maybe some of those measures we've already discussed, but what are those? Can you explain what those are?

It's a matter of the UN Convention Against Corruption recognizing the serious risk of corruption associated with wildlife crime.

And that's real.

A lot of times, species will be exported from a country or allowed to be imported.

... actually all crimes are generating proceeds of crime and have to be addressed from this perspective of tracing and recovering.

So in a nutshell, twenty-six years of working mainly with the Ministry of Justice, with the start very, very young graduate, twenty-three years, one of the youngest, uh, employees of the Ministry of Justice, starting directly with crime prevention policies, international monitoring mechanisms, mainly Council of Europe, GRECO, UN, UNCAC.

And then the, the big shift to the asset recovery universe because it indeed, now looking back, it's, it's a universe.

And in this part of my career, I dealt with establishing an asset recovery office, the first one in, in Romania.

We had EU.

EU actually, uh, led the negotiations on behalf of the Union for all member states.

We had UN, which al- is also an important, it's a global player in, in asset recovery with experience of, of establishing via UNCAC, a dedicated chapter on, on asset recovery.

So to a large extent, we were practitioners, and we were practitioners with hands-on experience in tracing, seizing, managing, and recovering criminal assets.

Then finally, we'll get an update on today's activities at the United Nations General Assembly and speak with Dulcie Limeback, the founder of PassBlue, which she edits and writes, covering primarily the United Nations, peacekeeping operations and women's issues.

Previously, she was an editor for the Coalition of the UN Convention Against Corruption.

was the publications director of the United Nations Association of the USA, and was an editor at the New York Times for more than 20 years.

And before we begin, for over a decade we have warned that Trump is both a criminal and likely a traitor, not to mention he's mentally unstable, egomaniacal, woefully ignorant, wildly incompetent, insatiably greedy, and spectacularly corrupt.

We're just humans with

And joining us now from the United Nations General Assembly is Dulcie Limebeck, the founder of Past Blue, which she edits and writes, covering primarily the United Nations, peacekeeping operations and women's issues.

Previously, she was an editor for the Coalition for the UN Convention Against Corruption, was the publications director of the United Nations Association of the USA, and was an editor at the New York Times for more than 20 years.

Welcome to Background Briefing, Dulcie Limebeck.