UN Cybercrime Convention: ICJ joins partners’call for substantial changes to protect human rights

Jan 25, 2024 | Advocacy, Joint Statement

The ICJ has joined more than a hundred organizations and experts in a call on the state delegations that will participate in the concluding session of the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee elaborating a proposed Cybercrime Convention (the Convention) to ensure the Convention is narrowly focused on tackling cybercrime, and not used as a tool to undermine human rights.

It is the ICJ’s view that the fight against cybercrime should not come at the expense of human rights, gender equality, and the dignity of the people whose lives will be affected by this Convention. It should not result in impeding security research and making us all less secure.

Robust and meaningful safeguards and limitations are essential to avoid the possibility of abuse of relevant provisions of the Convention that could arise under the guise of combating cybercrime. Absent meaningful changes to address these shortcomings, the Convention should be rejected.

Read the full Statement:

Joint Advocacy Statement on UN Cybercrime Convention