CLAIHR signed on to a coalition letter endorsed by the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Michael Brown, and Philando Castile as well as over 600 rights groups led by the American Civil Liberties Union and U.S. Human Rights Network. It demanded the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) swiftly convene a special session to investigate the escalating situation of police violence and repression of protests in the United States.

Subsequently, the UNHRC held an Urgent Debate on “the current racially inspired human rights violations, systemic racism, police brutality and the violence against peaceful protests” on June 17, 2020, which resulted in this Resolution on “The promotion and protection of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of Africans and of people of African descent against police brutality and other violations of human rights”.