Under the Cyberviolence Resource a new web page on domestic legislation on cyberviolence was launched. This webpage gathers over 1600 entries reflecting responses to a questionnaire adopted by the Cybercrime Convention Committee (T-CY) during its 32nd Plenary meeting and shared with members and Observers to the T-CY over five main themes: online xenophobia and racism, cyberviolence against children, cyberviolence against women, online trafficking in human beings and cyberviolence against journalists .
45 countries have responded to the questionnaire already and the responses were used to create a centralised, filterable database on cyberviolence provisions in domestic legislation worldwide. The information is filterable by topic, by country, or both, and an additional functionality allows to display results for two different countries in parallel.
This is a tool envisaged to facilitate the work of law enforcement practitioners in particular, to understand the scope of relevant offences in different jurisdictions, to support international co-operation and enhance cross-border efforts to combat cyberviolence.
The new tool can also be used as a resource by policy makers and government officials to make informed decisions and asses their legal frameworks against other already existing provisions, so as to develop and/or reform national legislation.
This new database will also be a useful resource for the T-CY Secretariat to better support the current and future Parties to the Convention on Cybercrime, and inform capacity building efforts led by the Cybercrime Programme Office of the Council of Europe (C-PROC).
The questionnaire also included sections related to domestic case law, national strategies and policies, research initiatives, victim support mechanisms, hotlines and civil society work on the topic. This information will be analysed and exploited to further develop and update additional sections of the Cyberviolence Resource such as Initiatives, policies, strategies and Hotlines and other tools.
The Cyberviolence Resource is one of the online tools developed under the Octopus Project of the Council of Europe’s Cybercrime Division, bringing together the work of colleagues from across sectors within the Organisation for the benefit of citizens and criminal justice authorities worldwide.
Domestic legislation on cyberviolence new