Ending violence against women with numbers and stories | Mary Ellsberg | TEDxFoggyBottom

After experiencing the problems first hand in Nicaragua, Mary Ellsberg has devoted her life to advocating for women's rights and social justice worldwide. In her talk, Mary explains her experience and emphasizes the importance of protecting and maintaining basic human rights for everyone.

Mary Ellsberg is the Founding Director of the Global Women's Institute at George Washington University. As a public health researcher and life-long activist, she is committed to conducting research that shines a light on social injustice and contributes to improving the lives of women and girls worldwide. She left college during her senior year to join the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua, and stayed there for the next 18 years, working in community health and women’s rights programs. Dr. Ellsberg carried out the first prevalence study on violence against women in Nicaragua. Since then, she has authored more than 40 books and articles on violence against women and girls globally and was a member of the Core Technical Team of the WHO Multi-country Study on Women’s Health and Domestic Violence against Women. She continues to speak out and is proud to have been arrested twice last year with immigrant’s rights activists protesting the breaking up of families through deportation.

[ellenweiss]

Brilliant weaving of the personal and the professional, the quantitative and the qualitative, and the data with advocacy.

[tbosesthenjwa]

This is horrific and then u page through instagram highlights & see foolish people making a joke of crime as though it's a good thing, mabye I must delete instagram

[GemraldSingerMusic]

I just made a video abought this topic. its interesting

[swimdownx]

it's good to teach people to defend themselves and preach against violence but . what she has in mind turns men into victims and women into abusers. it's a pride of strength for them to beat up a jerk . but you find your self beaten by a girl like Carmen . don't feel ashamed of course she beat you you couldn't fight back . but have ways of taking power away from women. first thing they'll go for is the crutch use your own leg to intercept while taking jump back don't leave your face open . if you end up on the ground not all over use legs again to push away but more importantly protect your gut before gets hits.