An auction to help women in forced marriages
What do gold-and-sapphire bees and tickets to the Tony Award-winning Broadway show Pippin have in common?
They are both among more than 25 items you can win in Unchained’s silent auction, which will culminate on October 19, at Unchained At Last’s Celebrate a Legislative Victory event.
But whether or not you plan to attend the event, you can NOW place bids online for the auction — and win a cut-and-color at Frederic Fekkai’s salon in SoHo or anautographed copy of Adam Driver on the cover of GQ Magazine, while you help women and girls flee or resist arranged/forced marriages.
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About the auction
Two nights at an award-winning bed and breakfast on Martha’s Vineyard. Tickets to the New York Philharmonic. Estee Lauder cosmetics and perfume, and Ann Taylor jewelry and accessories. An Xbox One. A limited-edition photograph by an award-winning photographer, created exclusively for Unchained.
You can win all these and much more — and help women in forced marriages – if you join the Celebrate a Legislative Victory auction.
About the event
You are invited to Celebrate a Legislative Victory on Sunday, October 19, from 4:00 pm to 6:30 pm, in Montclair, New Jersey.
Honoring Loretta Weinberg, New Jersey Senate Majority Leader and sponsor of the law Unchained wrote to help domestic violence survivors. The law was passed in New Jersey in July.
Featuring Amy Richards, feminist, activist, author, founder of Third Wave Foundation and Soapbox and author of Manifesta, Grassroots and Opting In.
Hors d’oeuvres. Wine. Live music. Silent auction.
Tickets: $75
Sponsorships: $300, $500 or $1,000
For each ticket purchased, $60 is tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
About Unchained’s Bill
Domestic violence survivors in New Jersey who ask a judge for a final restraining order typically need to prove they have been subjected to a pattern of abuse that is likely to recur. The best way for them to prove that pattern is to show copies of the prior temporary restraining orders they have obtained against their abusers and the accompanying police reports.
However, crime victims previously were required to pay for their own crime records. That was an unfair and unnecessary burden to put on a crime victim.
Also, a victim’s request for crime records itself previously became a public record that nearly anyone, including the abuser, could access. That obviously could have put a victim in additional danger.
Unchained therefore wrote the new law, which says that:
- A crime victim no longer needs to pay for her/his own crime records, and
- A crime victim’s request for her/his own records no longer is public.
Details about the law are here.
About Unchained
Unchained is the only nonprofit in the US dedicated to helping women leave and avoid arranged/forced marriages and rebuild their lives.
Many communities in the US practice arranged/forced marriage, and often the women and girls who try to resist or leave those marriages are stymied by religious laws, social customs and financial constraints. Often, too, their families and communities shun them.
In two years, with an almost all-volunteer staff (except a paid part-time social worker), Unchained has helped or is helping more than 85 women and girls to resist or leave arranged/forced marriages. Nearly all of those women and girls are domestic violence survivors — which is why Unchained wrote the new law.