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.)

Unmuted: Harnessing the Power of Storytelling in the Battle Against Forced and Child Marriage: A UN CSW70 Parallel Event | March 13, 2026
As the United Nations launches the 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women — the U.N.’s largest annual gathering on women’s rights — we at Unchained At Last are launching a hybrid parallel event. Join us for a screening of “Unmuted: Child Brides,” part of a docuseries by Without Exception Films, which spotlights survivors of child marriage alongside grassroots advocates and organizations working to end child marriage across the globe.

Recent events:

December 2, 2025 | Virtual CLE course: Chained and Silenced: The Reality of Forced and Child Marriage in the U.S.
Forced marriage and child marriage are recognized globally as human rights abuses and forms of modern slavery – yet they remain legal in most of the United States. Our virtual CLE course with Rutgers Law School examined the laws that enable and even encourage forced and child marriage; how those laws intersect with cultural and religious norms; the profound human suffering these abuses cause; and the vital role family lawyers can play to achieve justice.

November 12, 2025 | Golden State’s Child Marriage Problem
Here’s a reason to be enraged: California still allows children of ANY AGE to be entered into marriage. Legally. But, as we discussed with Chelsea Clinton at University of California, Los Angeles’ Hammer Museum, here’s a reason to be encouraged: Together we can ban child marriage in California. If you missed the event, or want to rewatch the conversation between Chelsea and our Fraidy Reiss — co-hosted by Clinton Global Initiative, Equality Now and The Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA and moderated by Equality Now’s Anastasia Law — you can access it here.

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.