Karine Bannelier

Dec 2, 2024 | lawfaremedia.org | Karine Bannelier |Eugenia Lostri

They say that a good compromise leaves everyone unhappy. That may very well be the case for the new UN cybercrime convention, which the General Assembly is likely to pass next month. The convention is the output of two years of rocky negotiations—a period marked by fundamental disagreements among the negotiating parties and uncertainty over whether the ad hoc committee handling the treaty would ever present a consensus draft.

Mar 26, 2024 | lawfaremedia.org | Karine Bannelier |Eugenia Lostri

It was late on Feb. 9 by the time the members of the United Nations committee tasked with elaborating an international cybercrime convention finished reviewing the latest draft text of the convention. Despite two years of intensive negotiation, and substantial progress on many aspects, this review showed that so many points of divergence remain among the participating governments that it was impossible to adopt a convention at this stage. Indeed, even the title of the convention remains undefined.