Personally, I consider the problem of self-defence in Cyberspace to be one of the most neglected although relevant topics in the last decade. Notwithstanding the fact that Cybercrime has become such an important issue in the international legal culture, some aspects related to computer crimes are being left outside of the mainstream legal debates.

In order to assess the fairness of a trial, firstly, it has to be determined whether the pre-trial stage was conducted by official authorities with respect to the rule of law (Ashworth, 2010). Police or police informants are allowed to engage in an operation and instigate, in order to test if a person will commit a crime in a given situation.

When the United Nations Organisation emerged in the still war-wrecked modern world, it aimed high at the avoidance of a third World War, reconstruction of wounded diplomatic relations between Governments around the tenets of peaceful dispute resolution, mutual respect for human dignity and human rights.

At an international level, multiple conventions regarding human rights enshrine the principle of absolute protection of human life. However, only one of these Conventions (the American Convention on Human Rights) sets a precise moment at which life begins (i.e.at conception), thus protecting the embryo. In the rest of the world, however, Courts have been reticent to grant the embryo the right to life, the purpose of this article being to analyse the diverging jurisprudence in the matter.