November 14, 2018, 3:09 pm
By Ambassador (ret.) Mary Ann Peters
Ambassador (ret.) Mary Ann Peters is the chief executive officer of The Carter Center.
At The Carter Center, we believe people can improve their own lives when they have the right skills, knowledge, and access to resources. I’d like to introduce you to a few people who are making a real difference in their communities.
Abudala Kakooza collects black flies …
November 12, 2018, 12:31 pm
By The Carter Center
In case you missed the Center’s Facebook Live coverage of U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Dr. Donald Hopkins’ press conference on Jan. 11, 2017, an archived webcast of this event can be viewed below.
During the conference, President Carter and Dr. Hopkins announce the 2016 Guinea Worm disease case totals and take questions from the press. Find out more about …
November 5, 2018, 1:05 pm
By The Carter Center
Reverend Esther Ibanga is the senior pastor of Jos Christian Missions International and the president and founder of Women Without Walls Initiative (WOWWI), an organization established to address the persistent ethno–religious conflicts in Plateau state. Under her leadership, WOWWI has provided a platform for women across different ethnic and religious groups to activate their voices in the call for peace.…
October 8, 2018, 11:29 am
By The Carter Center
In case you missed “A Conversation with the Carters” on Sept. 11 at The Carter Center, an archived version of the webcast can be viewed below.
About Conversations at The Carter Center
Conversations brings you up close with Carter Center experts, policy makers, and other special guests to discuss the issues that shape your world. All Conversations are webcast live …
September 19, 2018, 12:02 pm
By The Carter Center
Meet Penda Mbaye, program manager for Tostan in Senegal, where the international nonprofit works to empower women and girls and create positive social change. As an attendee of the Carter Center’s Human Rights Defenders Forum, Mbaye shared her expertise in human rights education and community outreach.
Watch below to hear her thoughts on why women are essential to promoting peace, …
September 5, 2018, 2:06 pm
By The Carter Center
Kelly Callahan is passionate about preventing blindness in some of the world’s most vulnerable populations. Callahan, who leads the Carter Center’s Trachoma Control Program, explains how the Center works with the governments and partners in Africa to use the proven SAFE strategies to stop trachoma, the world’s leading cause of preventable blindness.
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June 19, 2018, 11:15 am
By The Carter Center
Ambassador (ret.) Mary Ann Peters is the chief executive officer of The Carter Center.
It’s no secret that this world is full of problems—some big and terrifying, some small and trivial. It may seem overwhelming at times, but it doesn’t have to be paralyzing.
Wisdom and experience teach us that when faced with a difficult situation, the best approach is …
June 4, 2018, 10:34 am
By The Carter Center
Mental health expert and Rutgers professor Dr. Caroline Clauss-Ehlers explains why depression and suicide rates for teens are going up and what concerned parents should look for in their child or teen. Dr. Clauss-Ehlers, known as “Dr. CC” by her students, is also a Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellow. Learn more about her background here: https://gse.rutgers.edu/caroline_clauss-ehlers.
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May 15, 2018, 10:01 am
By The Carter Center
Though the Democratic Republic of Congo has more than half of the global supply of cobalt, its people are among the poorest in the world. In an interview with Carter Center Democracy Program staffer Erin Crysler, find out why the public has not benefited from Congo’s lucrative copper and cobalt mines and what a Carter Center report recommends.
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May 2, 2018, 11:43 am
By The Carter Center
To extend the reach of their stories and maintain relevance in a world of spinning news cycles, journalists today often have mandates to create social media accounts and share a weekly quota of posts on them.
But for Jaclyn Cosgrove, a 2015-16 recipient of the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism, social media means more than just posting her …
April 26, 2018, 8:57 am
By The Carter Center
A landmark study in which The Carter Center is participating could radically change the public health model in the developing world, experts say.
The multi-year, three-country study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in April 2018, confirms a 2009 study led by The Carter Center that found that mass administration of the antibiotic azithromycin for the infectious eye …
April 25, 2018, 6:00 am
By The Carter Center
Malaria, a potentially deadly disease, with its fevers, aches, and extreme fatigue, definitely is not cool. But a music video featuring a great dance beat and a team of top Haitian performers? Now that’s cool!
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Video posted with permission, courtesy of Haiti’s Ministry of Health
At the invitation of the governments …
April 8, 2018, 9:01 am
By The Carter Center
Last year, a Liberian woman named Beatrix decided she wanted to run for a seat in Liberia’s House of Representatives. But when she told her husband of her plan, he told her that she couldn’t, because she was a woman.
Liberia’s laws allow women to hold public office, but he didn’t want the mother of his 11 children to become …
March 21, 2018, 2:23 pm
By The Carter Center
In Feburary 2018, President Carter got candid about China in a guest lecture at Emory University. President Carter discussed factors that led to his decision to normalize U.S. relations with China in 1979. He also talks about a dinner conversation with President Deng Xiaoping that likely led to a surge of Christianity in China, now one of the world’s leading …
March 14, 2018, 8:37 am
By Kelly Callahan
Hard work for a good cause can be its own reward. It’s even better when you have results to show for it. In 2018 The Carter Center is marking 20 years of impact against trachoma, the world’s leading cause of preventable blindness.
