The Draft UN Cybercrime Convention: A Threat to Human Rights
The draft UN Cybercrime Convention proposed by Russia raises serious concerns about human rights violations.
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The draft UN Cybercrime Convention proposed by Russia raises serious concerns about human rights violations.
The internet helps them circumvent offline dangers and express themselves fully. But in doing so, they encounter new kinds of risks in the digital sphere.
Access Now and more than 100 NGOs demand state delegates to amend the draft cybercrime treaty in the upcoming concluding session of UN AHC.
Signatories stress that the Convention should only move forward if it pursues a specific goal of combating cybercrime without endangering the human rights and fundamental freedoms of those it seeks to protect, nor undermining efforts to improve cybersecurity for an open internet.
23 January, 2024We, the undersigned organizations and individual experts call on the state delegations participating in the concluding session of the United Nations (UN) Ad Hoc Committee to ensure that the proposed Cybercrime Convention (the Convention) is narrowly focused on tackling cybercrime,...