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 a hybrid side event alongside Sierra Leone and the Dominican Republic.
Join us and Chelsea Clinton, along with our global allies to talk about successes and setbacks in the global effort to ban child marriage and achieve gender equality by year 2030. Despite agreements like U.N. Sustainable Development Goal 5.3 and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, much of the world still falls short in protecting girls from forced and child marriage. Ending these human rights abuses cannot wait another 30 years. We will feature experiences from countries which have made recent progress towards prohibiting child marriage under the laws as well as analyze contexts where countries are lagging behind or are debating proposals to erode women’s and girl’s rights.
No Child Left a Bride:
Successes & Setbacks in the Global Effort to End Child Marriage
A Hybrid Side Event
69th Session of the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women
19 March 2025
10:00-11:15 am ET | 7:00-8:15 am PT | 2:00-3:15 pm GMT
Featuring:
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IN PERSON:
United Nations Conference Building, Economic and Social Council Chamber
405 E 45th St, New York, NY 10017
VIRTUALLY:
Via UN WebTV
About Commission on the Status of Women
Each year the U.N. hosts CSW, the U.N.’s largest annual gathering on gender equality and women’s empowerment, in New York City. Representatives of member states, U.N. entities and approved non-governmental organizations from around the world are invited to attend. The 69th session of CSW will take place 10 to 21 March 2025, on a hybrid basis, with a main focus on the review and appraisal of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcomes of the 23rd special session of the General Assembly.
It’s a huge victory for the 65,000 girls who live in D.C.: Mayor Muriel Bowser has signed the bill championed by Councilmember Brooke Pinto to end child marriage!
We are not putting on the party hats yet. Congress still has 30 days to veto the bill.
If Congress does not announce a war on girls in the next month (fingers crossed), the District of Columbia will then join the 13 U.S. states and two U.S. territories where we have helped to eliminate a human rights abuse that destroys girls’ lives. We will keep you updated.
We set out in November to see how much we could raise in the last 50 days of 2024 to help end child marriage in all 50 U.S. states.
Thanks to your generosity, and a dollar-for-dollar match on the first $75,000, together we raised $209,399. Clearly you are as determined as we are to eliminate this human rights abuse that destroys girls’ lives.
We promise to continue advocating relentlessly for an “18 no exceptions” marriage age in every state, if you promise to continue partnering with us.
It’s a big moment for us: We are looking to hire our first-ever staff attorney to represent our clients as they escape forced marriage. !!
And it’s a big moment for you: If you have at least eight years of family law experience, are admitted to the New Jersey State Bar and want a deeply meaningful, exciting job, apply now before someone else does. !!
Your dream job just became available.
We are looking to hire an Operations Manager who will keep our programs running smoothly, as we push relentlessly to end forced and child marriage in the United States through direct services and systems change.
What are you waiting for? Apply now.
Only a matter of hours are left in our 50for50 campaign to raise money in the last 50 days of 2024 to help end child marriage, a human rights abuse that destroys girls’ lives, in all 50 U.S. states.
Please donate now! Girls are counting on us to stand up for them.
We cannot let him stop us.
Missouri Sen. Mike Moon not only voted against ending child marriage, but he also spoke up passionately and glowingly in favor of marrying off middle schoolers.
Let’s see how much we can raise in the last 50 days of the year to continue fighting to end this human rights abuse in all 50 states — so we can overcome pushback from Sen. Moon and the like.
All 50for50 donations this week are in “honor” of Sen. Moon. We will show him that most people think girls actually matter.
All we want this holiday season is a signature.
Specifically, we are waiting eagerly for Mayor Muriel Bowser to sign the bill to end child marriage in Washington, D.C. — which is sitting on her desk, thanks to unanimous approval from the D.C. council.
If she signs the bill, and if Congress does not veto it, D.C. will join the 13 U.S. states and two territories where we have helped to end a human rights abuse that destroys girls’ lives.
Don’t be fooled by all the fluff and the big brown eyes.
Fairfax, our Chief Cuddle Officer, is an expertly trained facility dog with a serious job: He reduces the trauma-related symptoms our clients experience as they escape forced marriage and rebuild their life.
As we join forces in the last 50 days of the year to raise money to help end forced and child marriage in all 50 states, all 50for50 donations this week are in honor of Fairfax. And he made us promise to give him a belly rub for every donation received in his honor.
For a limited time, a generous donor is matching every donation, dollar for dollar — so your donation will double in value (which means double the belly rubs for Fairfax!).
