RT @loucharbon: 🚨 Great news! UN General Assembly 5th Committee (budget) soundly rejects attempt by #Russia #China #Iran & other governments also hostile to human rights to defund UN Human Rights Council @UN_HRC mechanisms. Shame on those who voted in favor or abstained. 👎 🚨 Every December the UN General Assembly’s 5th Committee (budget) negotiations on the following year’s budget go down to the wire. This year’s no different. As usual, governments hostile to human rights launch a desperate bid to defund UN human rights work. A thread 🧵 1/x - louis charbonneau Human Rights Watch Human Rights on Telegram by @HumanRightsTweets A @grttme project - Other backups: @Hallotme