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United Nations Finalize Convention Against Cybercrime with the Support of UNODC
After intensive negotiations and several years of work, the member states of the United Nations finalized a new international convention against cybercrime. This convention represents a historic step in the global fight against the growing threats in the digital space.
The UN General Assembly's committee negotiating a new cybercrime convention agreed on a draft after three years of work. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons; Basil D Soufi, CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported DEED (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en)
The road to this convention began more than five years ago when the United Nations recognized that the rapid development of information technology posed new challenges to international security and criminal law. While cybercrime had evolved into a global threat that transcended national borders and affected both state and private actors, the need to address this challenge was urgent.…
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