NNA - After a cumulative three years of work, the United Nations voted to adopt a draft version of its cybercrime convention last Friday, slated to be implemented by the General Assembly later this year in what the organization calls the first global legally-binding instrument on cybercrime. 

“The finalization of this Convention is a landmark step as the first multilateral anti-crime treaty in over 20 years and the first UN Convention against Cybercrime at a time when threats in cyberspace are growing rapidly,” said UNODC Executive Director Ghada Waly in a Friday press release. 

The treaty outlines multiple objectives centered around halting the use of technology that can facilitate firearm and drug trafficking, terrorism, and other transnational crimes. It stresses a need for member state coordination on legislative fronts to enforce the provisions of the convention.--agencies 

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