Commission on the Status of Women >> Join us and Chelsea Clinton at the U.N. (or virtually) on 3/19

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unchained At Last

February 28, 2025

Join us and Chelsea Clinton at the U.N. (or virtually) on 3/19

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:

• Chelsea Clinton, Vice Chair, Clinton Foundation
• Houry Geudelekian, Past Chair, NGO CSW/NY
• Sarah Hendriks,  Director of Policy, Programme & Intergovernmental Division, UN Women
• Hon. Mayra Jiménez, Minister of Women of the Dominican Republic
• Dr. Isata Mahoi, Minister of Gender and Children’s Affairs for Sierra Leone
• Dr. Joan Nyanyuki, Executive Director, African Child Policy Forum
• Saba Lishan, Coordinator of African Partnership to End Violence Against Children, African Child Policy Forum
• Fraidy Reiss, Founder/Executive Director, Unchained At Last
• Mona Sinha, Global Executive Director, Equality Now

 

Sponsored by:

• Permanent Mission of the Republic of Sierra Leone to the United Nations
• Permanent Mission of the Dominican Republic to the United Nations
• Unchained At Last
• NGO CSW/NY
• Equality Now
• Clinton Global Initiative
• Girls Not Brides
• UN Women
• African Child Policy Forum

 

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.