Convention on cybercrime – Protocol on xenophobia and racism

The Council of Europe helps protect societies worldwide from the threat of cybercrime through the Convention on Cybercrime and its Protocol on Xenophobia and Racism, the Cybercrime Convention Committee (T-CY) and the technical cooperation Programme on Cybercrime.

The Convention on Cybercrime of the Council of Europe is the only binding international instrument on this issue. It serves as a guideline for any country developing comprehensive national legislation against Cybercrime and as a framework for international cooperation between State Parties to this treaty.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Convention on Cybercrime, Budapest, 23.11.01 http://www.europeansources.info/record/convention-on-cybercrime-budapest-23-11-01/

ESO: Background information: Additional Protocol to the Convention on cybercrime, concerning the criminalisation of acts of a racist and xenophobic nature committed through computer systems http://www.europeansources.info/record/additional-protocol-to-the-convention-on-cybercrime-concerning-the-criminalisation-of-acts-of-a-racist-and-xenophobic-nature-committed-through-computer-systems/

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