Budapest Convention and India

  • 2019’s Budapest Convention was held in Strasbourg, France from November 20-22.
  • The convention is the sole legally binding multilateral (56-member) treaty that coordinates cybercrime investigations between nation-states and criminalises certain cybercrime conduct.
  • Though India was represented by a senior official, but has again, decided not to sign the convention.
  • In contrast, at the UN, India voted in favour of a Russian-led UN resolution to set up a separate convention entitled “Countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes” which passed in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Third Committee 88-58, with 34 absentations.
  • The proposal, which India voted in ....
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