With the adoption of 15 resolutions and three oral decisions spanning questions of international development cooperation, decolonization, human rights and the promotion of decent work, the Economic and Social Council concluded today what its President called a “groundbreaking” 2010 substantive session.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s address to the African Union Summit, as delivered by Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro, in Kampala, on 25 July:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Hiroshima Conference for the Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons by 2020, to be held in Hiroshima, 27-29 July:

On 22 July 2010, the Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee adopted revised Guidelines for the Conduct of its Work. The Guidelines were revised in compliance with paragraph 35 of Security Council resolution 1904 (2009), which directed the Committee, “as a matter of priority, to review its guidelines with respect to the provisions of [that] resolution…”.

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks to the African Investment Forum, in Kampala on 25 July:

With the inception of a new law and the country’s first shelter to assist victims, Albania was strengthening its arsenal to stamp out domestic violence, the South-Eastern European country’s delegation told the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today.

Reporting mixed progress in achieving the goals of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID), its top official urged the Security Council this morning to support a “holistic” approach to ending the conflict and to promote the participation of all parties in the peace process.

Following is the text of UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks to the gala dinner at the African Union Summit, in Kampala, Uganda, on 26 July:

Following is the text of UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks to the African Leaders Malaria Alliance, in Kampala, Uganda, on 26 July:

As natural disasters, accidents and war generate a never-ending stream of crisis, public attention shifts from one to the next. Meanwhile hunger, a quiet crisis, is rarely in the news. Yet current calculations show that close to 1 billion people worldwide continue to go to bed hungry each night. If the world continues at the current pace of hunger reduction, the Millennium Development Goal of halving the percentage of hungry people by 2015 will not be met.