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at events in Sydney, Australia © ICC-CPI Front row, from left: ICC Deputy Prosecutor and Prosecutor-elect, Fatou Bensouda, ICC President Sang- Hyun Song and ICC Registrar Silvana Arbia" title="Three ICC Officials at events in Sydney, Australia © ICC-CPI Front row, from left: ICC Deputy Prosecutor and Prosecutor-elect, Fatou Bensouda, ICC President Sang- Hyun Song and ICC Registrar Silvana Arbia" class=" juimg-article"/></p> <p>From 14 to 15 February 2012, the President of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Judge Sang-Hyun Song, the ICC Deputy Prosecutor and Prosecutor-elect, Ms Fatou Bensouda, and the ICC Registrar, Ms Silvana Arbia, participated in the international conference "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130828063404/http://www.justiceforall.unsw.edu.au/">Justice for all? The International Criminal Court - 10 year review of the ICC</a>" at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia. The President of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute, Ambassador Tiina Intelmann, also took part in the events.</p> <p>On Tuesday, 14 February, in his opening keynote remarks, President Song thanked the organisers for sponsoring the Court's participation in the conference which brought together a large number of experts not only from the Pacific region but also many parts of Asia to discuss the ICC's work and impact in its first decade, focusing on gender justice and on the involvement of the Asia-Pacific, which remains the most underrepresented group of the States in the Rome Statute system.</p> <p><img src="/web/20130828063404im_/http://www.10a.icc-cpi.info/images/Articles/15-02-2012/2.jpg" alt="ICC President, Judge Sang-Hyun Song, speaks at “Justice for All?” conference at UNSW in Sydney, Australia © ICC-CPI" title="ICC President, Judge Sang-Hyun Song, speaks at “Justice for All?” conference at UNSW in Sydney, Australia © ICC-CPI" class="image-right" width="250" style="float: right; margin-left: 8px;" style="float: right;" class=" juright juimg-article"/>On the same day, as part of the Conference activities, President Song gave the annual Wallace Wurth Memorial Lecture at UNSW, titled "From Punishment to Prevention: Reflections on the Future of International Criminal Justice". President Song discussed in his lecture how the ICC can contribute to the prevention of atrocity crimes through deterrence, timely intervention, stabilization and norm-setting. At the same time, he noted that the ICC is part of a wider array of mechanisms crucial for peace, stability and the protection of human rights, and stressed that a realistic understanding of the possibilities as well as limitations of international justice is a prerequisite to its success.</p> <p>On the morning of 14 February, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130828063404/http://www.icc-cpi.int/Menus/Go?id=8c6b4b5b-d854-4f18-ba76-e0f687f2d60c&lan=en-GB">the ICC Registrar, Ms Arbia</a>, participating in the debate on the ICC's work in its first 10 years, explained how the Court has become a developed institution while underlining that it is crucial to address the current challenges and, especially, to ensure that the ICC receives cooperation from States and adequate resources to fulfil its mandate. </p> <p><img src="/web/20130828063404im_/http://www.10a.icc-cpi.info/images/Articles/15-02-2012/3.jpg" alt="ICC Deputy Prosecutor and Prosecutor-elect, Ms Fatou Bensouda, speaks at “Justice for All?” conference at UNSW in Sydney, Australia © ICCCPI" title="ICC Deputy Prosecutor and Prosecutor-elect, Ms Fatou Bensouda, speaks at “Justice for All?” conference at UNSW in Sydney, Australia © ICCCPI" class="image-left" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" width="250" style="float: left;" class=" juleft juimg-article"/>That afternoon, participating in the sessions on gender justice and lessons from Africa, Deputy Prosecutor and Prosecutor-elect Bensouda stated that "gender crimes are prominent in our prosecutions because they are prominent in the contexts being prosecuted [...] This Office will make sure that victims of sexual and gender crimes see the crimes they have suffered from being punished; their perpetrators being arrested and prevented from committing additional crimes. This is a commitment that I make as the new incoming Prosecutor of the ICC". Ms Bensouda also stressed that: "The world increasingly understands the role of the Court; Africa understood it right from the start. As Africans, we know that impunity is not an academic, abstract notion. This African commitment to ending impunity is a reality and we have to find the way to focus our attention on that".</p> <p>On 15 February, in her statement at the Conference, the President of the Assembly of States Parties, Ambassador Tiina Intelmann, emphasized the importance of consolidating the numerous achievements of the Rome Statute system, while also seeking to expand the number of States Parties, in particular from Asia and the Pacific Islands, as well as to continue concerted efforts to ensure that States Parties have adequate implementing legislation in place in order to cooperate fully with the Court. </p> <p>On Thursday, 16 February, the ICC President, Deputy Prosecutor and Prosecutor-elect, and Registrar participated in a full-day roundtable on the ICC with delegates from 11 member states of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), organised by the governments of Australia and New Zealand and the Commonwealth Secretariat, with the participation of the PIF Secretary-General and former ICC judge, Mr Tuiloma Neroni Slade. The participants discussed the involvement of PIF states in the ICC and progress toward accession and full implementation of the Rome Statute in the region. 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