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.)

March 19, 2025 | No Child Left a Bride: Successes & Setbacks in the Global Effort to End Child Marriage: A Hybrid UN CSW69 Side Event
As the United Nations launches the 69th session of the Commission on the Status of Women – the U.N.’s largest annual gathering on gender equality and women’s empowerment – we at Unchained At Last are launching our first-ever hybrid side event alongside Sierra Leone and the Dominican Republic. Join us and Chelsea Clinton, along with representatives from Equality Now, UN Women, African Child Policy Forum, Sierra Leone and the Dominican Republic to talk about successes and setbacks in the global effort to ban child marriage and achieve gender equality by year 2030. Registration details to come.

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.