As the United Nations launches the 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women – the world’s largest annual gathering on women’s rights – we at Unchained At Last are launching a hybrid parallel event.
Join us for the premiere of “Unseen Housewives,” our outrageous, provocative “trailer” for a show that must not go on: child marriage in the U.S. Be among the first people in the world to watch the parody trailer and take a look behind the scenes with its creators and the child marriage survivors featured in it.
Can an in-your-face video clip help end child marriage in the 43 U.S. states that still allow it and move the world closer to achieving UN Sustainable Development Goal 5.3? Let’s find out!
Unseen Housewives: The Shocking “Trailer” That Aims to Cancel America’s Child Marriage Show
An Unchained At Last (Hybrid) Parallel Event
67th Session of the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women
10 March 2023
2:30 p.m. ET – 3:30 p.m. ET | 11:30 a.m. PT – 12:30 p.m. PT | 7:30 p.m. GMT – 8:30 p.m. GMT
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Church Center for the United Nations
777 United Nations Plaza, New York City
VIRTUALLY:
Via Zoom
About Commission on the Status of Women
Each year the UN hosts CSW, the world’s largest annual gathering on women’s rights, in New York City. Representatives of member states, UN entities and approved non-governmental organizations from around the world are invited to attend. The 67th session of CSW takes place 6 to 17 March 2023, on a hybrid basis, with a priority theme of innovation and technological change and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality.
About Unchained At Last
Unchained is a survivor-led NGO dedicated to ending forced and child marriage in the U.S. through direct services and advocacy – in line with UN Sustainable Development Goal 5.3, which calls for the elimination of child, early and forced marriage by year 2030. Unchained provides crucial legal and social services, always for free, to help individuals in the U.S. escape forced marriages and rebuild their lives, and Unchained pushes relentlessly for social, policy and legal change. Founded in 2011, Unchained has been an Organization in Special Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council since 2017.
About Area 23 and “Unseen Housewives”
Area 23 is a health advertising agency that conceived of and produced “Unseen Housewives” pro bono to raise awareness of Unchained’s work to end child marriage in the U.S. “Unseen Housewives” is based on the true stories of four of the many American child marriage survivors who have partnered with Unchained to stop this human rights abuse from destroying more lives.
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We set out to raise $50,000 in the last 50 days of 2022 to help end child marriage in all 50 U.S. states.
Thanks to your extraordinary generosity, we raised more than FOUR TIMES that goal: $200,499. And thanks to a dollar-for-dollar match on the first $75,000 raised, that amount increased to $275,499.
Child marriage’s days are numbered — especially if you continue to partner with us. Here are some ways you can do that.
You still have a matter of hours left to help raise $50k* $175k* $185k by the end of the year, to help end child marriage in all 50 U.S. states.
Child marriage remains legal in most of the U.S., and thousands of minors marry here every year. Most are girls wed to adult men, typically before the girls are old enough to enter a domestic violence shelter or file for divorce. Many are not even old enough to consent to sex. Your support will help end this human rights abuse!
*Goal already met! Thank you.
With more than two weeks left to go, thanks to you, we’ve already nearly TRIPLED our goal of raising $50k in the last 50 days of the year to help end child marriage in all 50 states!
Can you help us meet our new goal of $175k?
We set out to raise $50k in the last 50 days of 2022 so we can continue leading the national movement to end child marriage in all 50 U.S. states.
As of today, we’ve raised just over $47,000. Can you help us get to our $50,000 goal? Every donation you make now will double in value, thanks to a dollar-for-dollar match from a generous donor.
The U.S. has promised to end child marriage by year 2030. But so far only seven U.S. states have kept that promise.
We need your help.
Let’s raise $50k in the last 50 days of 2022, so we can continue leading the national movement to end child marriage in all 50 U.S. states
For a limited time, every donation you make will double in value, thanks to a dollar-for-dollar match from a generous donor.
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Also, have you taken action on 50 in 50? Let’s raise $50k in the last 50 days of the year, to help end child marriage in all 50 U.S. states.
Pat was 14 and pregnant when her parents married her off to the 27-year-old bible study counselor who had been raping her for two years.
“Children in these marriages are trapped,” Pat said. “We must outlaw child marriage.”
Child marriage remains legal in most of the U.S., and thousands of minors marry here every year. Most, like Pat, are girls wed to adult men, typically before the girls are old enough to enter a domestic violence shelter or file for divorce. Many are not old enough to consent to sex.
Together we can end this human rights abuse. With your support — and with Pat as one of our fearless allies — we at Unchained have helped to end child marriage in seven U.S. states over the last four years. Only 43 states to go.
WE NEED YOUR HELP! Let’s raise $50k in the last 50 days of 2022, so we can continue leading the national movement to end child marriage in all 50 U.S. states.
Every donation you make now will double in value, thanks to a dollar-for-dollar match from a generous donor.
After keeping us waiting for months, the Idaho Supreme Court finally announced its decision yesterday in Carver v. Hornish, the child-marriage case — and its decision was not to make a decision. The court declined to rule on the constitutionality of child marriage.
Also deeply disappointing: The court ruled against the plaintiff, Erin Carver, who was trying to undo a grave injustice. Her ex-husband paid a stranger to marry their then-16-year-old daughter so the girl would be emancipated and he could bypass the courts regarding custody and child support.
This is a reminder of the urgency of our relentless campaign to end child marriage in the United States. Please donate now to help us win this fight in every U.S. state.
Back in February, Idaho Supreme Court justices heard oral arguments in the case, which highlighted one of the horrors of child marriage — the ease with which parents can marry off their teen for selfish reasons and leave the teen trapped in a legal nightmare.
Several state and national media outlets covered the case, including The Daily Beast, The Associated Press and the Idaho Post Register.
Learn more about child marriage in the U.S. and our work to end it.
