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June 8, 2020

To Members of the Council

Re: Request for the Convening of a Special Session on the Escalating Situation of Police Violence and Repression of Protests in the

Excellencies,

The undersigned family members of victims of police killings and 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 borne out of the repression of nationwide protests. The recent protests erupted on May 26 in response to the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which was only one of a recent string of unlawful killings of unarmed Black people by police and armed white vigilantes. We are deeply concerned about the escalation in violent police responses to largely peaceful protests in the United States, which included the use of rubber bullets, tear gas, pepper spray and in some cases live ammunition, in violation of international standards on the use of force and management of assemblies including recent U.N. Guidance on Less Lethal Weapons. Additionally, we are greatly concerned that rather than using his position to serve as a force for calm and unity, President Trump has chosen to weaponize the tensions through his rhetoric, evidenced by his promise to seize authority from Governors who fail to take the most extreme tactics against protestors and to deploy federal armed forces against protestors (an action which would be of questionable legality). Our greatest concern is that the violence and counter-violence are diverting the gaze of the global community away from the pain being expressed by a nation in mourning over the callous manner of the 8 minutes and 46 seconds that ended George Floyd’s life while a group of police stood and watched, about the death of more than 100,000 souls from the coronavirus – disproportionately killing Black, Brown and Indigenous Peoples – and about how injustice never ends and equality never comes. There is serious concern that the tear gas and police-induced havoc will obscure the legitimate passion of these demonstrations. The voices of the demonstrators must be heard. Their demand is that the endemic racism, hatred, fear and disparity finally be confronted. News media reported that seven people were struck by gunfire at a protest in Louisville; at least one person – David McAtee, who was serving food to protesters at a demonstration – was killed by police gunfire in Kentucky. In Ohio, pepper spray was used on large crowds. Reports by journalists on social media indicate that rubber bullets were used in numerous places, including

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Phoenix, Arizona, Los Angeles, California, Atlanta, Georgia, and Minneapolis, Minnesota. According to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, there have been “at least 200 reported incidents of journalists covering the protests being physically attacked, intimidated or arbitrarily arrested, despite their press credentials being clearly visible.” The police arrested more than 11,000 people across the United States. Furthermore, it appears that police departments across the United States, backed by federal government agencies (like CBP, which regularly violates civil and human rights), are escalating the situation with further militarization and excessive use of force against protesters. We note with particular concern the deployment of at least 62,000 National Guard soldiers in two dozen states, the encouragement of the use of violence and mass arrests by President Donald Trump on social media, and his labeling of the protesters as “terrorists.” Several cities around the country have imposed sweeping night curfews that triggered further inflammation of the atmosphere and create yet another justification for additional police violence and arrests. It is well established that neither the use of violence by a small number of people or damage to property suspend the right to protest of all those gathered and do not provide a license to escalate police responses and use of excessive or deadly force. In all circumstances, the police response must remain within the limits of the law and seek to de-escalate situations rather than inflame them by resorting to life-threatening weapons. The right to peaceful assembly and demonstration must be protected. This mandate is even more compelling with regard to the rights of minority communities, especially people of African descent, to speak out against racist practices they have endured for centuries. Recent police killings of unarmed Black people as well as police use of excessive force and repression of protests violate United States obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the Convention against and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT), and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial (ICERD). Finally, the massive use of less-lethal weapons is compounded by the fact that the United States is one of the worst-hit countries by the global pandemic. Health experts warned that the use of tear gas may place individuals at a higher risk of contracting a respiratory illness and can have long-term effects on respiratory function. We are also concerned that mass arrests and detention of protesters will only exacerbate the risk of infection in jails that are already an epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. In light of these grave concerns, the undersigned urge the members of the U.N. Human Rights Council to convene a special session of the HRC in order to respond appropriately to this situation of escalating human right abuses with the aim of mandating an independent inquiry into: ▪ the recent history of racist policing in cities across the country that continues with seeming impunity from the killing of Michael Brown and the repression of protests in Ferguson, Missouri, to the murder of George Floyd. ▪ allegations of excessive use of force against peaceful protesters and journalists in the demonstrations in U.S. cities since the murder of George Floyd.

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The inquiry should report its findings to the Human Rights Council and should include recommendations on how to ensure that the United States upholds its human rights obligations, including in the context of policing, protests and assemblies. Further, the report should address the responsibility of the United States to end impunity for police violence and other serious human rights violations through appropriate disciplinary actions, prosecutions and fair trials. The Council should call on the United States to give those conducting this inquiry, as well as other U.N. officials (including special procedures mandate holders), full and unrestricted access to interview witnesses, including members of the police, to inspect places of detention, and to monitor trials related to the protests and their aftermath.

Family members of victims of police violence who have endorsed this letter: Philonise Floyd and Quincy Mason, brother and son of George Floyd Tamika Palmer, mother of Breonna Taylor Valerie Castile, mother of Philando Castile Lezley McSpadden, mother of Michael Brown

Signatories, in alphabetical order: Ability Society of Solidarity Centre Al-Marsad - Arab Human Ireland Rights Centre in Golan Access Now Heights African American Center Action for Sexual on Global Politics and All Under One Roof Health and Rights Human Rights (CHR) Allard K. Lowenstein ActionAid International African Voices Forum Ltd. International Human Rights Clinic, Yale Law School Ad-Hoc Work Group- African Youth Abroad Minnesota Re: US Empowerment Alliance Against Racial Compliance with Human Profiling Rights Treaties AFROAMERICAS Alliance for Humane Justice Project AfroFem Koop Biotechnology Adalah: The Legal Center AfroResistance ALQST for Human Rights for Arab in Aging People in Prison Alquimia Global Human Rights Campaign Advocacy Without Borders Watch AIDS Information Centre - Advocates for Human American Association of Rights People with Disabilities Al-Awda, Palestine Right Advocating Opportunity to Return Coalition American Union (ACLU) Al-Haq Organization

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American Civil Liberties American Civil Liberties American Friends Service Union of Alabama Union of New Jersey Committee American Civil Liberties American Civil Liberties Americans for Union of Arizona Union of New & Human Rights in (ADHRB) American Civil Liberties American Civil Liberties Union of D.C. Union of Northern AMIMO California American Civil Liberties Another Gulf Is Possible Union of Delaware American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina Appalachian Prison Book American Civil Liberties Project Union of Florida American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon Plataforma Latinoamerica American Civil Liberties de Personas que Ejercen el Union of Georgia American Civil Liberties Trabajo Sexual Union of Pennsylvania (PLAPERTS) American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii American Civil Liberties APRODEH Union of Puerto Rico American Civil Liberties ARC.Gambia Union of Idaho American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego & Arizona Justice Alliance American Civil Liberties Imperial Counties Union of Indiana Arizona State University American Civil Liberties School of Social American Civil Liberties Union of South Carolina Transformation (ASU SST) Union of Kansas American Civil Liberties Art and Resistance Through American Civil Liberties Union of Southern Education (ARTE) Union of Kentucky California ARTICLE 19 American Civil Liberties American Civil Liberties Arundel Metrics Union of Louisiana Union of Tennessee Asociación Azul American Civil Liberties American Civil Liberties Union of Maine Union of Texas Asociación de Mujeres American Civil Liberties Trabajadores Sexuales American Civil Liberties LIQUIDAMBAR Union of Massachusetts Union of Vermont American Civil Liberties Asociación Pro Derechos American Civil Liberties Humanos (APRODEH) Union of Maryland Union of Virginia American Civil Liberties Asociación Pro Derechos American Civil Liberties Humanos de España Union of Minnesota Union of West Virginia Association ANNA American Civil Liberties American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada Union of Wisconsin Association for Civil Rights in Israel American Civil Liberties American Union of New Hampshire Society

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Association of Elder Blacks in law Enforcement Center for Justice and Complete Count of America (CEJIL) Committees Blessed Deliverance Center for Media and Association Tunisienne de Missionary Baptist Church Democracy Défense des Libertés Individuelles BLMSKC Center for Pan-African Affairs Aucune Bridging the Gap in Virginia Center for Reproductive August Third Collective Rights NAIM Brown Dog Consulting/Lotus Circle Center for the Human Autistic Minority Rights of Users and International Buddhist Peace Fellowship Survivors of Psychiatry Autistic Self Advocacy Byrd Barr Place Center for Victims of Network California Association of Torture Autistic Women & Health Facilities Center for Women's Health Nonbinary Network Campaign for Youth Justice & Human Rights, Suffolk University Awaken Canadian Alliance for Sex Work Law Reform Center on Law, Inequality AwokeNet and Metro Equity Bahrain Institute for Rights Canadian Civil Liberties Association Central Arizona National and Democracy Lawyers Guild BALI Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights Central Coast Alliance Best Practices Policy United for a Sustainable Project Cardozo Law Institute in Economy Holocaust and Human BIWOC Rising Rights (CLIHHR) Centre de Tunis pour la Liberté de la Presse Black Administrators in Casa San Jose Child Welfare Centre for Civil and Center for Constitutional Political Rights Black AIDS Institute Rights (CCR) Centre for Human Rights Black and Brown Activism Center for Genetics and Law, SOAS, University of Defense Collective Society London (BBADC) Center for Hunger-Free Centro de Capacitación Black Lives Matter Communities at Drexel Social de Panamá University Black Lives Matter to Centro de Derechos de Wisconsin Unitarian Center for International Mujeres (CDM) Universalists Environmental Law Centro de Derechos y Black Women's Blueprint Center for Justice and Desarrollo (CEDAL) Accountability

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Centro de Estudios Legales Climate Defense Project Comisión Mexicana de y Sociales Defensa y Promoción de Clínica de Asistencia Legal los Derechos Humanos Centro de Investigación y de la Escuela de Derecho Promoción de los Derechos de la Universidad de Puerto Comisión Nacional de los Humanos (CIPRODEH) Rico Derechos Humanos Centro Nicaraguense de Coaching for Healing, Command Attention, LLC. Derechos Humanos Justice and Liberation (CENIDH) Committee on the Coalición de Derechos Administration of Justice Centro para la Accion Humanos Legal en Derechos Community Enterprise & Humanos (CALDH) Coalition Ending Gender- Solidarity Economy Clinic Based Violence Center for Health and Community Healing Gender Equity (CHANGE) Coalition of Organized Network, Inc. Residents of East Liberty Chicago Alliance Against Community Justice Project Coalition Tunisienne Racist and Political Concerned Families of Repression Contre la Peine de Mort (CTCPM) Westchester Chicago Anti Eviction Conectas Direitos Humanos Campaign NFP Coalizão Negra por Direitos Congregation of the Chicago Coalition for the Passion Homeless Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo Connecticut Legal Rights Chicago Independent (CAJAR) Project Human Rights Council Coletivo GRITO Cook Ross Inc. China Labour Bulletin Collectif Afro-Swiss Cornell Gender Justice Citizens for Global Clinic Solutions, Minnesota Collectif Vérité et Justice pour Nathalie Cornell International City of Eugene Community Human Rights Clinic: Development Colour of Poverty - Colour of Change (COP-COC) Litigation and Advocacy City of Milwaukee Equal Cossart-Daly Law, A.P.C. Rights Commission Human Rights Clinic Council of Agencies CivicLab, Inc. Columbia Law School Serving South Asians Civil Liberties Defense Human Rights Institute (CASSA) Center Comisión de Derechos Covington May P.C. Civil Rights and Equal Humanos de El Salvador Coyote RI Development Foundation, DECIDE Comisión Ecuménica de Creative Educators Derechos Humanos International Network, Inc. Clean Water for North Carolina Cuba Sí Coalition

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Cultural Survival Environmental Law and Freedom Network USA Justice Clinic, Golden December 12th Movement University School of Law Friends of Guest House International Secretariat Equal Justice Society Front Line Defenders Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Equality Florida Full Circle Strategies DemCast USA Equality North Carolina Fund for Global Human Rights Desiree Alliance Equality Now Fundación Regional de Dignité Impact Equity Matters Asesoría en Derechos Humanos (Inredh) Disability Rights Fund, Inc. European Network of People of African Descent Fundamedios Disability Rights (ENPAD) Washington GAPIMNY - Empowering European Network of Queer & Trans Asian Disciples LGBTQ + Women of African Descent Pacific Islanders AllianceQ (ENWAD) Geneva International DITSHWANELO - The European Reparations Centre for Justice Botswana Centre for Commission (ERC) Human Rights Global Center for Ex-Wenela Miners Environmental Legal Domestic Violence Project Association of Studies, Elisabeth Haub at the Urban Justice Center School of Law at Pace Extraordinary Lutheran University Dôobôot Radio Ministries Global Justice Center Drug Policy Alliance Eyes Right Veteran’s Earth Guardians Bay Area Foundation Global Justice Clinic, NYU School of Law Crew Eyewitness Palestine EarthRights International Global Network of Sex Faith In New Jersey Work Projects East Bay Meditation Center Faith in Public Life Global Rights Advocacy ECPAT - USA Faith in the Streets Global Union & Global Egyptian Initiative for Faith in the Streets Houmard & Co. Personal Rights Foundation First Peoples Worldwide El Centro de la Raza GoodWorks: North Florida State University Empowered at Dusk Alabama Harm Reduction Women's Association Foundation for Social Government Accountability Development Entropia Social, A.C. Project Frantz Fanon Foundation Environmental Justice Grand-Saconnex Clinic, University of Miami #FreeToo Rising Gulf Centre for Human School of Law Free Speech For People Rights (GCHR)

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Haitian Bridge Alliance Human Rights Funders Instituto de Estudios del Network (HRFN) Proceso Penal Acusatorio, Haldane Society of A.C. (INEPPA) Socialist Lawyers Human Rights House Foundation Instituto Mexicano de Hawai'i Institute for Human Derechos Humanos y Rights Democracia Higher Ground Change Human Rights Network INTLawyers Strategies Intentional Peer Support Hill District Consensus Human Rights Project at Group the Urban Justice Center Interfaith Action for Human Rights HIV Modernization Humanists International Movement-Indiana International Action Hungarian Civil Liberties Network for Gender Equity Homeless Rights Advocacy Union & Law Project Idaho Coalition for HIV International Association Howard Branch Art, LLC Health and Safety Against Torture Human Rights Advocates Ilê Omolu Oxum International Association of Human Rights and Gender Immigration Justice Clinic, Democratic Lawyers Justice Clinic, CUNY Elisabeth Haub School of International Association of School of Law Law at Pace University Schools of Social Work Human Rights Association Implementation Team International Black (IHD) IDPAD - Spain Women's Congress Human Rights Campaign Indian Law Resource International Center for Center Human Rights Campaign - Advocates Against Arkansas Initiative for Black People Discrimination (ICAAD) in Germany (ISD-BUND International Corporate Human Rights Center, UC e.V) Berkeley Accountability Roundtable Inmate Support Virginia (ICAR) Human Rights Coalition of South Texas Innovation for Change - International Federation for and North Human Rights (FIDH) Africa of International Federation for Institut Equalita e.V the Protection of the Rights Human Rights Education of Ethnic, Religious, Associates (HREA) Institute on Inequalities in Linguistic & Other Global Health, USC Human Rights Educators Minorities (IFPRERLOM) USA Instituto Brasileiro de International Human Rights Análises Sociais e Association of American Econômicas (Ibase) Minorities (IHRAAM)

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International Human Rights International Women's Kairos Center for Center, Loyola Law Rights Action Watch, Religions, Rights, and School, Los Angeles Pacific Social Justice International Human Rights International Youth and Kentucky Equal Justice Clinic, Boston University Student Movement for the Center School of Law United Nations (ISMUN) Kilomba Collective International Human Rights Internet Law Reform Clinic, Duke University Dialogue (iLaw) KontraS (The Commission School of Law for the Disappeared and InterReligious Task Force Victims of Violence) International Human Rights on Central America and Clinic, Santa Clara Law Colombia (IRTF) L’association Sillage International Human Rights International Organization La Passerelle I.D.E Clinic, Western New for Migration La Sala Latinx Artists’ England University School Network of Law Irvine United Congregational Church Lain American Relief Fund International Indian Treaty (CA) Advocates for Peace Council (IITC) and Justice Lake Oconee Community Church International Institute on Islamic Association of WV Race, Equality and Human Lambda Legal Rights Isuroon: Strong Women, Strong Communities Lao Movement for Human International Network of Rights Women Migrant and Jamaican Diaspora UK (JDUK) Latin American Relief Diaspora (INWODI) Fund Jamii Linguists International Organization LatinoJustice PRLDEF for the Elimination of All Jewish Voice for Peace Forms of Racial Charlottesville Latvian Human Rights Discrimination (EAFORD) Committee Jewish Voice for Peace International Service for Pittsburgh LAUSD Human Rights John T. Williams Law Office of Astkhik International Solidarity Committee Levantian Movement, Northern Law Office of Geri Lynn California (ISM) Judondi Bolden, Attorney at Law Green International Tribunal of Lawyers' Committee for Conscience of Peoples in Justiça Global Civil Rights Under Law Movement Justice Revival Lawyers' Rights Watch International Women's Justice Roundtable Canada Health Coalition JusticiaR-Colectivo de Justicia Racial

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League for the Defense of Ligue Suisse des Droits de Meta Peace Team Human Rights (LADO), l'Homme Romania Metropolitan Lipan Apache Women Congregations United League for the Defense of Defense (MCU) Human Rights in (LDDHI) Loren Miller Bar Michigan Coalition for Association Human Rights League of Women Voters of the United States Loretto at the United Migrant and Immigrant Nations Community Action Project A Legacy of Equality, Leadership and Organizing MADRE: Global Women’s Migrant Labourers Forum Rights (LELO) Migrant Workers Legal Aid at Work Maggie’s: Toronto Sex Association of Lesotho Workers Action Project Legal Resources Centre Milwaukee County Human Main Street Legal Services, Rights Commission Leitner Center for Inc., CUNY School of Law International Law and ¡Milwaukee Evaluation! Justice Mainers for Accountable Inc. Leadership LEPA Initiative MINBYUN - Lawyers for a Maison des Droits de Democratic Society Liberation l'Homme Cameroun (MDHC) MindFreedom International Liberty Mandel Legal Aid Clinic at Minneapolis Commission Liberty rebellion the University of Chicago on Civil Rights organization Law School Minority Rights Group LID- Mano Amiga de la Costa International Life Personal Consulting Chica Mobbera Foundation Liga Argentina por los Many Voices: A Black Mobilization for Justice Derechos Humanos Church Movement for Gay & Transgender Justice Monadnock Progressive Liga Mexicana por la Alliance Defensa de los Derechos Marijuana Policy Project Humanos, (LIMEDDH) Monitoring Committee on Massachusetts College of Attacks on Lawyers, Liga voor de Rechten van Liberal Arts International Association of de Mens (Dutch League for Meadow Heights People's Lawyers Human Rights) Meadow Invest B.V. Moral High Ground Ligue des droits de l'Homme - (LDH) Meiklejohn Civil Liberties More Light Presbyterians Institute (MCLI) Ligue des droits humains Mothers for Justice United Mentai Patients Liberation Mothers for Police Ligue des Electeurs L.E / Alliance FIDH Accountability

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Movement Law Lab National Law Center on New Mexico Homelessness & Poverty Environmental Law Center Movimento Nacional de Direitos Humanos National Lawyers Guild New Ways Ministry (MNDH) National Lawyers Guild, New York Civil Liberties Muhammad Ali Institute, International Committee Union (NYCLU) University of Louisville National Lawyers Guild, NGO Little People of Mundo Invisivel Milwaukee Chapter Kosovo Mzilikazi Former Mine National Lawyers Guild, NGOCSW/NYC Women Workers Association Minnesota Chapter and Girls of African Descent, and NAACP Legal Defense and National Lawyers Guild, Caribbean Educational Fund, Inc. Palestine Subcommittee (LDF) Nishmat Shoom National LGBTQ Task Namati Force Northwest Immigrant Rights Project National African American National Network for Reparations Commission Immigrant & Refugee Northwestern University Rights Pritzker School of Law National Association for Center for International Rights Protection and National Network for Human Rights Advocacy Youth NY4Palestine National Association for National Welfare Rights the Advancement of Union Oakland Law Collaborative Colored People (NAACP) National Working Positive Obadele Society National Association of Coalition Black Social Workers Odhikar NC Environmental Justice National Association of Network Office for the Defense of Social Workers, West Rights and Intersectionality Virginia Chapter National Coalition of (ODRI) Blacks for Reparations in National Conference of America (NCOBRA) Ohio Valley Environmental Black Lawyers Coalition (OVEC) Negrocentricas National Council of OIKOdiplomatique Churches USA New Afrikan People's Organization/Malcolm X Ojanen Law Office National Council of Jewish Grassroots Movement OneAmerica Women (MXGM) Ontario Council of National Health Care for New Generation for Agencies Serving the Homeless Council Palestine Immigrants (OCASI) National Institute for New Jersey Red Umbrella Open Society Justice Reproductive Health Alliance Initiative

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Operation HomeCare Pittsburgh Human Rights Red Española de City Alliance Inmigración y Ayuda al Organisation Marocaine Refugiado des Droits Humains Planned Parenthood (OMDH) Federation of America Red Nacional de Juventudes Afromexicanas Organización de Planners Network Afrodescendientes Chilenos Rede de Religiões Afro- Lumbanga Positive Women's Network Brasileiras e Saúde - USA (RENAFRO) Organization for Black Struggle Pozen Family Center REDRESS Human Rights Lab at The Organization for Human University of Chicago Renaissance Movement - Rights and Democracy Prevention Access Our Bodies Ourselves Campaign Restorative Justice for (OBOS) Oakland Youth Priority Africa Network OutRight Action Restore Justice in VA International Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy Rev. Dr. Martin Luther International Observatory (PHRGE), Northeastern King Jr. Park Legacy of Human Rights University School of Law Council Palestine Legal Progress for Colorado Rights and Democracy Pan-African Council Project Blueprint Resource Information Help for the Disadvantaged & Parity Public Justice Center the Disenfranchised Partners in Health Punjabi Community Health (RIHD) Services Partnership for Civil Justice Robert F. Kennedy Human Fund Queer Connect, Inc. Rights Pax Christi USA Rachel Corrie Foundation Rockford Anti-Racism for Peace and Justice Network Peace Brigades International – USA (PBI) Racial Justice Initiative of Room for All TBUSA Penal Reform International Rural Women's Health Racine Dominicans Project Penn Plaza Support and Action Raoul Wallenberg Centre Rutgers AAUP-AFT for Human Rights (American Association of People's Advocacy Institute University Professors- Reale Justice Network Physicians for Human American Federation of Rights ReconcilingWorks: Teachers, AFL-CIO) Lutherans for Full Rutgers Immigrant Rights Pioneer Valley Progressive Participation Muslims Clinic

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Rutgers International Sexual Rights Initiative Telangana Hijra Intersex Human Rights Clinic Transgender Samiti Shareteah Humanitarian Rutgers Muslim Law Organization (SHO) Temple of Understanding Student's Association Shirkat Gah: Women's The Advocates for Human Sacramento Regional Resource Centre Rights Coalition to End Homelessness SinColectivo The Black Coalition of Rights (Brazil) Sadiki Educational Safari, SISTA Fire The Drammeh Institute Inc. SisterLove, Inc. Saint Paul Branch of the The Evans Exoneration SOFA ( Solidarite Fanm Project, Inc. NAACP Ayisyèn) Salvation and Social Justice The Franklin Law Group, Soroptimist International P.C. Samidoun: Palestinian South Asian Legal Clinic of The Fund for Global Prisoner Solidarity Ontario Network Human Rights South Austin Coalition, The GAP Gyrlz & The Samuel DeWitt Proctor Chicago Conference GAP Gyz South City Delivery, LLC San Francisco Zen Center The Gravity Human Rights South Potomac Citizens Podcast San Jose State University Association Human Rights Institute The Southern Legal Counsel, Legal Center Sciences Po Inc. The International Human Seattle/King County Southern Rural Black Rights Clinic, Harvard Law Coalition on Homelessness Women's Initiative for School Seguridad en Democracia Economic and Social The Davis (SEDEM) Justice Foundation Sero Project St. John’s Old Catholic The Law Office of Curtis Community FJ Doebbler Seventh-Day Adventist Kinship International Stella, l'amie de Maimie The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Sex Workers Outreach Student Press Law Center Project (SWOP) Swaziland Migrant The Mitchell Legal Group, PLLC. SWOP Behind Bars (SBB) Mineworkers Association (SWAMMIWA) The National Statistics SWOP, Minneapolis T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call Institute of Brazil SWOP, Seattle for Human Rights The Neighbourhood Sex Workers Project at the Taskin Law and Mediation Organization (TNO) Urban Justice Center The Nia Foundation

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