As the United Nations launches the virtual 66th session of the Commission on the Status of Women – the world’s largest annual gathering on women’s rights – we at Unchained At Last are launching a virtual parallel event.
We’ll watch “Woman,” a gorgeous film that examines the lives and experiences of hundreds of women around the world. And we’ll discuss with the filmmaker and two of the women interviewed for the film — including our Fraidy Reiss — the central question “Woman” raises: How far have women come, and how far do they still have to go?
Speakers:
• Anastasia Mikova, Writer/Journalist/Film Director (“Woman” Co-Director)
• Houry Geudelekian, Chair of NGO CSW/NY (child marriage survivor and “Woman” interviewee)
• Fraidy Reiss, Founder/Executive Director of Unchained At Last (forced marriage survivor and “Woman” interviewee)
Sponsors:
• Unchained At Last
• NGO CSW/NY
18 March 2022
12:00 p.m. EDT – 2:00 p.m. EDT | 9:00 a.m. PDT – 11:00 a.m. PDT | 4:00 p.m. GMT – 6:00 p.m. GMT
ABOUT “WOMAN”
From filmmakers Anastasia Mikova and Yann Arthus-Bertrand, “Woman” is based on interviews with some 2,000 women in 50 countries. In a world where women are forced to marry, deprived of an education, forbidden from going outside on their own and subjected to myriad other abuses, the film is a message of love and hope.
ABOUT CSW
Each year the United Nations hosts the Commission on the Status of Women, the world’s largest annual gathering on women’s rights, in New York City. Representatives of member states, UN entities and approved non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from around the world are invited to attend.
The 66th session of CSW will take place virtually, due to the covid pandemic. It will last from 14 to 25 March 2022, with a priority theme of achieving gender equality in the context of climate change and a review theme of women’s economic empowerment.
ABOUT UNCHAINED AT LAST
Unchained is a survivor-led NGO dedicated to ending forced and child marriage in the United States through direct services and advocacy. Unchained provides crucial legal and social services, always for free, to help individuals in the U.S. escape arranged/forced marriages. Unchained also pushes for social, policy and legal change, including by leading a growing national movement to eliminate child marriage in every U.S. state.
Unchained, founded in 2011, has been an Organization in Special Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council since 2017.
