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:
March 19, 2025 | No Child Left a Bride: Successes & Setbacks in the Global Effort to End Child Marriage: A UN CSW69 Side Event
More than 200 people joined in the United Nations Economic and Social Council chamber (and many more online) to hear us talk about successes and setbacks in the global effort to ban child marriage and achieve gender equality by year 2030 with Chelsea Clinton and global allies. Watch a recording of the event here.
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.