A small group of countries led by China and Russia has repeatedly tried to block funding for human rights-related work at the United Nations over a five-year period, according to a report by the nonprofit International Service for Human Rights (ISHR). The report cited proposals for major cuts to the U.N. human rights office and for the elimination of funding for some U.N. investigations, in what it called a weaponization of the budget process. While those attempts, made in closed-door U.N.