The General Assembly established the Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes, which approved a draft convention in August 2024. The Ad Hoc Committee is further mandated by the General Assembly to hold sessions to prepare the draft rules of procedure for the Conference of the States Parties, and to negotiate a draft protocol supplementary to the Convention, addressing, inter alia, additional criminal offences as appropriate.
Interested global and regional intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council are invited to participate in the work of the Ad Hoc Committee.
Other interested relevant non-governmental organizations, civil society organizations, academic institutions and private sector organizations (as per paragraph 9 of General Assembly resolution 75/282), which were approved by the Ad Hoc Committee are also invited to participate in the sessions. You can access the list of other relevant organizations here. The decision of the Committee including the list of organizations is contained in Annex I to document A/AC.291/6.
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Position |
Regional Group |
Name and Country |
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Chair |
GRULAC |
H.E. Mr. Eduardo Paes Saboia (Brazil) |
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Vice-Chair |
African Group |
Mr. Tahar Mohdeb (Algeria) |
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Vice-Chair |
African Group |
H.E. Mr. Mohamed Nasr (Egypt) |
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Vice-Chair |
African Group |
Mr. Terlumun George-Maria Tyendezwa (Nigeria) |
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Vice-Chair |
Asia-Pacific Group |
Mr. Yang Liu (China) |
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Vice-Chair |
Asia-Pacific Group |
Mr. Junichi Hashimoto (Japan) |
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Vice-Chair |
Eastern-European Group |
Ms. Marta Pelechová (Czechia) |
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Vice-Chair |
Eastern-European Group |
Mr. Markko Künnapu (Estonia) |
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Vice-Chair |
Eastern-European Group |
Mr. Ernest Chernukhin (Russian Federation) |
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Vice-Chair |
GRULAC |
H.E. Mr. Claudio Peguero Castillo (Dominican Republic) |
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Vice-Chair |
GRULAC |
H.E. Ms. Sabra Amari Murillo Centeno (Nicaragua) |
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Vice-Chair |
WEOG |
Mr. Denis Cairney (Australia) |
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Vice-Chair |
WEOG |
Mr. Pedro Verdelho (Portugal) |
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Vice-Chair |
WEOG |
Ms. Katharine “Kate” Nanavatty (United States) |
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Rapporteur |
Asia-Pacific Group |
Mr. Anat Widagdo (Indonesia) |
In its resolution 65/230, the General Assembly requested the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice to establish, in line with paragraph 42 of the Salvador Declaration on Comprehensive Strategies for Global Challenges: Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Systems and Their Development in a Changing World, an open-ended intergovernmental expert group, to conduct a comprehensive study of the problem of cybercrime and responses to it by Member States, the international community and the private sector, including the exchange of information on national legislation, best practices, technical assistance and international cooperation, with a view to examining options to strengthen existing and to propose new national and international legal or other responses to cybercrime.
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