[huridocs-tech] Canadian Minister of Justice to sign major agreement on racist cybercrime

Strasbourg, 07.07.2005 - The Canadian Minister of Justice, Irwin Cotler,
will pay an official visit to the Council of Europe on Friday 8 July.
Minister Cotler will meet Council of Europe Secretary General Terry Davis,
Deputy Secretary General Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, the President of the
European Court of Human Rights Luzius Wildhaber, and the Commissioner for
Human Rights, Alvaro Gil-Robles.

During this visit Minister Cotler will sign the First Additional Protocol
to the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime, concerning the
criminalisation of acts of a racist and xenophobic nature committed
through computer systems. Canada, state having Observer status with the
Council of Europe since 1996, signed the Convention on Cybercrime [
http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/Commun/QueVoulezVous.asp?NT=185&CM=1&CL=ENG
] in November 2001 and will become the first non-European country to sign
the additional Protocol [
http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/Commun/QueVoulezVous.asp?NT=189&CM=1&CL=ENG
] (the texts of the Convention and of its protocol as well as additional
information on these treaties are also available at
http://conventions.coe.int)

Minister Cotler will be available to meet with the press from 12:00 to
12:45 (office 1.037, Palais de l'Europe)

Press Contact
Council of Europe Press Division
Tel. +33 3 88 41 25 60  - Fax. +33 3 88 41 39 11
E-mail: PressUnit@coe.int



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