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As of the Court鈥檚 10<sup>th</sup> anniversary on 1 July 2012, there are 121 States Parties to the Rome Statute.</p> <p>Over the past ten years, the ICC has become a fully functional institution, with 16 cases having been brought before the Court, 6 of which are at the trial stage. ICC judges have issued 22 arrest warrants and 6 arrests have been made; they also issued nine summonses to appear, all of which have been honoured. On 14 March 2012, the ICC rendered its first verdict in the case <em>The Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo</em>; the accused was found guilty of the war crimes of enlisting and conscripting children under the age of 15 into military forces, and using them to participate actively in hostilities.      </p> <p>The Office of the Prosecutor is conducting investigations in seven situations, Uganda, the DRC, CAR, Darfur (Sudan), Kenya, Libya and C么te d鈥橧voire, as well as eight preliminary examinations in Afghanistan, Colombia, Georgia, Honduras, Nigeria, the Republic of Korea, Guinea and Mali.</p> <p>As 2012 is the ICC鈥檚 10-year anniversary, we invite you to mark this new beginning for international criminal justice, and encourage you to join the ICC in its fight against impunity. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130927000221/http://www.icc-cpi.int/iccdocs/PIDS/TL/timeline.html" target="_blank"><img src="/web/20130927000221im_/http://www.10a.icc-cpi.info/images/Articles/tlEng.jpg" alt="tlEng" height="300" width="680" class=" juimg-article"/></a></p> </div> </div> <div class="cleared"></div> </div> <div class="cleared"></div> </div> </div> </div><div><a title="Faboba : Cr茅ation de composantJoomla" style="font-size: 8px;; visibility: visible;display:inline;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130927000221/http://www.faboba.com/" target="_blank">FaLang translation system by Faboba</a></div> <div class="cleared"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="cleared"></div> <div class="art-footer"> <div class="art-footer-body"> <div class="art-footer-text"> <p>Contact: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130927000221/mailto:10A.info@icc-cpi.int">10A.info@icc-cpi.int</a></p><p>Copyright International Criminal Court / Cour p茅nale internationale 漏 2012. 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