Abstract:
The swift progress of digital technology has outrun the ability of current international legal
frameworks to address effectively the threats of cybercrime. While the 2001 Budapest Convention
on Cybercrime represented an important step towards global cooperation, its sparse adoption and
patchwork nature have led to jurisdictional gaps that are exploited by cybercriminals, as Brenner
points out, producing legal "black holes" in the world's enforcement terrain. This thesis aims to
critically analyse international and regional legal frameworks, as well as national legislation, to
identify their procedural inconsistency and incapability of global application. Overall, doctrinal
research methodology through descriptive and critical analysis has been applied to analyse the
viability of a common global convention on cybercrime complaint procedures and stresses the
imperative need for an internationally centralized cybercrime reporting system. The researcher has
found that the primary hurdles to the possibility of such a convention, e.g., geopolitical tensions,
opposing national interests, and disparities in technology between industrialized and developing
nations, are explored extensively. Moreover, this research has determined the significance of
public-private partnerships in enhancing cyber resilience, an argument presented by Schjolberg
and Ghernaouti-Helie (A Global Treaty on Cybercrime: A Contribution from the Global Alliance
for Cybercrime Prevention. In light of this, the General Assembly's adoption on 24 December 2024
in New York by resolution 79/243 of the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime further
attests to the growing agreement on the importance of wide-ranging international cooperation in
this area. This research concludes the significance of embracing a harmonised worldwide legal
remedy in terms of a process of victim redressal and prescribes effective lines of action tending
towards its implementation, enforcement and sustain-ability in order to reach a robust as well as
concerted world cybercrime paradigm.
