Esta Soler: How we turned the tide on domestic violence (Hint: the Polaroid helped)
استا سولر: كيف اوقفنا مد العنف المنزلي ( تلميح : لقد ساعدت كاميرا البولارويد )
In 1994, Esta Soler was among the key advocates for a US law to combat the devastating effects of violence against women. Today, her mission is global. Full bio
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keep making this progress,
to the Advertising Council,
Woman: If you had just called me,
I would have known—
المرأة : لو قمت بالاتصال بي , كنت لادرك ...
Woman: Honey, please don't be so loud.
المرأة : عزيزي , ارجوك لا ترفع صوتك .
Woman: No! Help!
المرأة : لا ! ساعدوني !
(Breaking glass)
What's your excuse?"]
have healthy relationships.
at the back of the room,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Esta Soler - Violence and abuse prevention expertIn 1994, Esta Soler was among the key advocates for a US law to combat the devastating effects of violence against women. Today, her mission is global.
Why you should listen
Esta Soler has guided Futures Without Violence to become one of the world’s most effective advocacy organizations in the effort to recognize and prevent gender-based violence. The agency she founded 30 years ago provides education, policy development and training to reduce the prevalence of violence against women and children, and to care for its victims. "When we started, there wasn't even the language for this," says Soler.
Futures Without Violence -- then called the Family Violence Prevention Fund -- lobbied for a decade to get the Violence Against Women Act passed in 1994. Congress upheld and expanded the law in 2000, 2005 and most recently in 2013. Today, Futures Without Violence has offices in San Francisco, Boston and Washington, D.C. -- but their vision is for a worldwide moment to end gender-based violence. Today, Soler is committed working with anti-violence activists around the world to pass the International Violence Against Women Act.
Esta Soler | Speaker | TED.com