Reuters - U.N. Myanmar envoy Ibrahim Gambari will visit the Asian country on Monday to renew pressure on its ruling junta to democratize and improve its human rights record.

AFP - Sponsors of a UN Security Council resolution to formalize the ceasefire deal between Russia and Georgia pushed for a vote by week's end, but Moscow balked at inserting any reference to Georgia's territorial integrity.

Reuters - The United Nations and Red Cross have poured hundreds of tonnes of aid supplies into Georgia, but need better security conditions before deploying in South Ossetia, the two bodies said on Friday.

AFP - The Taliban's "systematic" targetting of educators in Afghanistan must not go unpunished, said the United Nations expert on education in a strongly worded statement Friday.

AP - Humanitarian aid groups and U.N. monitors are unable to reach large parts of Georgia due to insecure conditions despite a French-brokered cease-fire, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday.

AP - A senior Taiwanese diplomat says Taiwan is not bidding for United Nations membership this year for the first time since 1992, but is seeking representation in U.N. agencies instead.

AP - Thousands of Muslims poured into the streets of Kashmir on Thursday, demanding independence from India hours after archival Pakistan called on the United Nations to stop what it characterized as gross human rights violations in the divided Himalayan region.

AFP - The United Nations estimates that 1.56 million dollars of international cyclone aid has been lost due to the military regime's complex foreign currency rules, a top official said Thursday.

Reuters - Sudan's north-south foes have a lot of work ahead to meet a July 2009 deadline to hold elections under a landmark peace deal, the head of the United Nations mission charged with monitoring the accord said on Thursday.

AP - A Russian military convoy defied a cease-fire agreement Wednesday and rolled through a strategically important city in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, which claimed fresh looting and bombing by the Russians and their allies.

Reuters - The United Nations pledged on Wednesday to hasten its cautious steps in helping Iraq rebuild, five years after a devastating bomb pushed it to pull foreign staff out of the country.

AP - Five years after bombings forced the United Nations to pull out of Iraq, the world body is back. It announced plans Wednesday to help Iraq rebuild and create jobs following complaints the government has been unable or unwilling to spend its oil riches.

AP - France plans to ask the U.N. Security Council to approve by the end of the week its six-point plan for ending hostilities between Georgia and Russia, diplomats said Wednesday.