The Ministry of Justice, Human Rights and Civic Promotion of Burkina Faso organized, with the support of the Council of Europe, through the GLACY + project, a workshop to develop a draft law on cybercrime and electronic evidence.
The purpose of this activity was to develop and align Burkina Faso’s domestic legislation with the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime in respect of human rights and the rule of law, as well as data protection standards.
The workshop brought together, for four days, about twenty specialists in the IT field, the public and private sector, as well as members from the academic and research community with the main mission to evaluate the existing legal framework for potential gaps and develop a draft cybercrime law that addresses all the particularities in this field.
Stressing the importance of establishing an appropriate legal arsenal, the Minister of Justice in Burkina Faso, René Bagoro, noted in his opening speech of the workshop:
Our country, since the reform of the Criminal Code in 2004, has foreseen and punished computer crimes [...], but it must be recognized at once that these texts have proved insufficient to repress the abuses and other violations of the fundamental rights of which cyberspace constitutes the field of action.
