Unchained At Last’s executive director, Fraidy Reiss, shared her traumatic personal story last night on PBS NewsHour, as part of two-part segment about forced marriage in the US. The segment focuses on Reiss and three other survivors of human-rights abuses that have long gone unnoticed in America: forced marriage and child marriage.
“It’s so important to raise awareness about this and to talk about this publicly, because you can’t solve a problem that nobody knows exists,” Reiss said.
Unchained not only provides direct services to help women and girls escape forced marriages but also pushes for social and legal change, through education and advocacy, to end forced marriage in America. The NewsHour piece is the latest in a series of national and international news media stories and op-ed articles through which Unchained has educated the public about forced and child marriage.