SRI adds their voice to request for U.N. independent inquiry into escalating situation of police violence and repression in the US

Published on June 12, 2020

The Sexual Rights Initiative has signed on a coalition letter addressed to the members of the Human Rights Council led by the ACLU to demand for an independent UN inquiry into the escalating police violence and repression in the US. 

The family members of victims of police killings and civil society organizations from around the world, call on member states of the UN Human Rights Council to urgently convene a Special Session on the situation of human rights in the United States in order to respond to the unfolding grave human rights crisis bore out of the repression of nationwide protests.

Read the full letter on the ACLU website.