Upcoming Events

You can help end forced and child marriage in the U.S. – and have some fun while you’re at it. (Make sure to join the Unchained email list so you’re the first to know about upcoming events.)

Recent events:

July 18, 2024 | Chain-In San Jose
As you might have read in Mercury News, Newsweek and other news outlets, more than 20 forced and child marriage survivors, activists and allies joined us in San Jose to chain-in outside Asm. Ash Kalra’s office in bridal gowns and chains. Our message to Kalra was clear: Stop holding up AB2924, the widely popular bill to end child marriage in California and eliminate a human rights abuse that destroys girls’ lives.

March 14, 2024 | True Crime: Forced Marriage in the U.S. (A CSW68 Parallel Event)
Every year, we host a parallel event to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women – the world’s largest annual gathering on women’s rights. This year, we held a hybrid event at the Church Center for the U.N. and on Zoom, where Ashley Flowers of Crime Junkie led a conversation with American forced and child marriage survivors about how they escaped their nightmare and why they now have partnered with us to make sure the U.S. keeps its promise – under the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals – to eliminate forced and child marriage by year 2030 and help achieve gender equality.

January 18, 2024 | Chain-In Olympia
More than 20 survivors, allies and legislators joined us to stand silently on the rotunda steps in the state capitol, dressed in bridal gowns and chains. Our message was clear: It is time for Washington legislators to pass HB1455 and end child marriage — a human rights abuse that impacted 5,048 children as young as 13 in Washington between 2000 and 2021, mostly girls wed to adult men, in some cases before the girls were old enough to consent to sex.