LEGAL CHALLENGES TO INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AGAINST OFFENCES RELATED TO ONLINE CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE, CHILD SEXUAL EXPLOITATION MATERIAL DURING ARMED CONFLICTS - DOI: 10.12818/P.0304-2340.2025v86p201

Résumé

Legal protection of children during armed
conflicts is considered as a means to reduce
suffering of this highly vulnerable group. Unfortunately,
information and telecommunication
technologies are intensively used to aggravate
humanitarian condition of children
being disproportionately affected by military
conflicts. Although international humanitarian
law contains a significant number of norms
providing special protection of children, most
issues related to child abuses on the Internet
are enshrined in specific treaties that may be
not applicable during international military
conflicts. Since many treaties may be suspended
or terminated during armed conflicts for
different reasons, including practical impossibility
to exercise international cooperation
between law-enforcement agencies, the issue
of applicability of cybercrime conventions to
international cooperation in the fight against
child abuses on the Internet during armed
conflicts needs particular academic attention.
Thus, the present article addresses the norms
of the law of treaties related to the effects of
armed conflicts on treaties, including cybercrime
conventions; discusses applicability of
the existing cybercrime treaties during armed
conflicts.

KEYWORDS: Online sexual abuse. Online
child sexual exploitation and abuse. Armed
conflict. Cybercrime. Operation of treaties.