Submission for the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention on Cybercrime.
- Institute for public diplomacy
- Aug 9
- 2 min read
The Institute for public diplomacy thanks the Secretariat for the opportunity to submit our considerations for the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention on Cybercrime.
The Institute commends the ways in which multi-stakeholders may participate in the work of the Ad Hoc Committee, in accordance with paragraphs 7 to 10 of General Assembly resolution 75/282, approved by Member States on 14 December 2021 and modalities of participation of multistakeholders that were agreed for the Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes as contained in the annex of A/AC.291/6 of 2 March 2022. Procedures for participation of multi-stakeholders should be as streamlined as possible across all Cybercrime Convention’s processes, lowering the barriers to meaningful participation for civil society actors that is essential to ensure an effective, inclusive, and rights-respecting approach to combating cybercrime. The Institute welcomes the opportunity to set out what public diplomacy practitioners believe are the necessary conditions for future Conference and submits the following proposals to be integrated in the draft of the Rules: States Parties should enhance: ● the level of involvement, and ● the level of participation of civil society actors as key stakeholders in the UN Ad Hoc Committee, whose modalities are described in A/AC.291/6. The future Conference of the State Parties should also guarantee multilingualism. A protected civic space is also vital, as it ensures that civil society actors have the freedom to operate, and participate openly in the Cybercrime Convention’s processes. We recognise the critical importance to ensure that the Conference of the State Parties is able to fulfil its objectives, set forth in the Convention, promote and review its implementation, through the activities, procedures and methods set forth in its § 5. Finally, the Institute looks forward to continuing to engage in this process and wishes to reiterate its support for the Ad Hoc Committee.
