Resolution 22-8

Resolution 22/8
Promoting technical assistance and capacity-building to

strengthen national measures and international
cooperation against cybercrime
The Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice,

Recalling General Assembly resolutions 55/59 of 4 December
2000, 55/63 of 4 December 2000, 56/121 of 19 December 2001,
63/195 of 18 December 2008, 64/179 of 18 December 2009, 65/232 of
21 December 2010, 66/179 of 19 December 2011, 66/181 of 19
December 2011, 67/184 of 20 December 2012 and 67/189 of
20 December 2012,
Recalling also Economic and Social Council resolutions 2011/33
of 28 July 2011 on prevention, protection and international
cooperation against the use of new information technologies to abuse
and/or exploit children, and 2012/19 of 27 December 2012 on
strengthening international cooperation in combating transnational
organized crime in all its forms and manifestations,
Welcoming General Assembly resolution 65/230 of 21 December
2010, on the Twelfth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention
and Criminal Justice, and noting that in the Salvador Declaration on
Comprehensive Strategies for Global Challenges: Crime Prevention
and Criminal Justice Systems and Their Development in a Changing
World, Member States recommended that the United Nations Office
on Drugs and Crime should, upon request, provide, in cooperation
with Member States, relevant international organizations and the
private sector, technical assistance and training to States to improve
national legislation and build the capacity of national authorities in
order to deal with cybercrime, including the prevention, detection,
investigation and prosecution of such crime in all its forms, and to
enhance the security of computer networks,
Taking note of Economic and Social Council resolution 2005/15
of 22 July 2005, in which the Council endorsed the Bangkok
Declaration on Synergies and Responses: Strategic Alliances in Crime
Prevention and Criminal Justice, 1 adopted at the Eleventh United
Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, where by
Member States reaffirmed the fundamental importance of
implementation of existing instruments and the further development
of national measures and international cooperation in criminal
matters, including cybercrime, and invited the Commission on Crime
Prevention and Criminal Justice to examine the feasibility of
providing further assistance in that area under the aegis of the United
Nations in partnership with other similarly focused organizations,
Highlighting the utility of the United Nations Convention
against Transnational Organized Crime 2 in strengthening international
cooperation for the prevention, investigation and prosecution of
1 General Assembly resolution 60/177, annex.

2 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2225, No. 39574.
cybercrime in cases where the offence is transnational in nature and
involves an organized criminal group,
Conscious of the challenges faced by States in combating
cybercrime, and emphasizing the need to reinforce technical
assistance and capacity-building activities, based on national needs,
for the prevention, prosecution and punishment of the use of
information technologies for criminal purposes,
Welcoming the effort of the United Nations Office on Drugs and
Crime in preparing the newly finalized Global Programme on
Cybercrime for the purpose of fulfilling its mandate to provide
technical assistance and capacity-building on cybercrime,
Taking into account that technical assistance aimed at the
strengthening of crime prevention and criminal justice capacities to
counter cybercrime will have a direct benefit and impact and will
address the needs of practitioners,
Recalling, therefore, in particular its resolution 20/7 of 15 April
2011 on the promotion of activities relating to combating cybercrime,
including technical assistance and capacity-building,
1. Takes note of the outcome of the second meeting of the
Expert Group to Conduct a Comprehensive Study on Cybercrime, held
in Vienna from 25 to 28 February 2013, in particular that in
discussions concerning the study it was noted that there was broad
support for capacity-building and technical assistance and for the role
of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in that regard;
2. Invites the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, in
close cooperation with Member States, to advance the implementation
of the Global Programme on Cybercrime;
3. Requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to
present, in due course, the Global Programme on Cybercrime to the
standing open-ended intergovernmental working group on improving
the governance and financial situation of the United Nations Office on
Drugs and Crime;
4. Also requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and
Crime, on the basis of the needs of requesting States, to strengthen
partnerships for technical assistance and capacity-building to counter
cybercrime with Member States, relevant organizations, the private
sector and civil society;
5. Further requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and
Crime to serve as a central data repository of cybercrime laws and
lessons learned with a view to facilitating the continued assessment of
needs and criminal justice capabilities and the delivery and
coordination of technical assistance;
6. Invites Member States and other donors to provide
extrabudgetary resources, where necessary and in accordance with the
rules and procedures of the United Nations, for the implementati on of
the present resolution;
7. Requests the Executive Director to submit a report to the
Commission at its twenty-third session on the implementation of the
present resolution and the work of the Global Programme on
Cybercrime.

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Promoting technical assistance and capacity-building to

The Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice,

1 General Assembly resolution 60/177, annex.

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