Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter joined a 40-member Carter Center delegation to witness the third phase of Egypt’s parliamentary elections Jan. 10-11. The delegation, deployed in Egypt since mid-November for the three-phase election, represents 21 countries. In addition to witnessing the polling and counting, President Carter and the Carter Center leadership team met with key stakeholders, including the Supreme Judicial …
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January 11, 2012, 2:18 pm
On The Ground in Cairo: Carter Center Delegation Witnesses Third Phase of Egypt’s Parliamentary Elections
By Deborah Hakes
January 3, 2012, 11:57 am
Building Better Lives, Brick by Brick
The Carter Center works in some of the world’s most remote and impoverished communities. These are areas beyond where the road ends, with no power grid, and limited access to outside markets. For health workers striving to eliminate Guinea worm disease in South Sudan, this means many essential items, like building supplies for a new case containment center, are virtually …
November 28, 2011, 5:22 pm
Carter Center Observes Challenging DRC Elections, Committed to Country’s Long-Term Stability
On Nov. 28, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is holding its second democratic multi-party national elections since gaining independence in 1960, and the first to be administered solely by the country’s election commission. Elections in 2006 were overseen by the United Nations.
Photo: G. Dubourthoumieu/The Carter Center
A Congolese woman casts her vote in a polling station in …
November 14, 2011, 9:13 am
What Are You Thankful For?
At The Carter Center, we are thankful for all that has been accomplished over the last year: historic elections in Sudan and Tunisia; the end of Guinea worm disease in Ghana; the first graduating class of mental health workers in Liberia; and so much more.
None of this would have been possible without you–our friends and supporters. Your ongoing generosity …
November 11, 2011, 10:37 am
The Carter Center Congratulates Latin American Countries for Major Strides Toward the Elimination of River Blindness
The Carter Center and its Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas (OEPA) are pleased to congratulate three Latin American countries on their recent progress toward eliminating river blindness (onchocerciasis).
Today at the sixteenth annual InterAmerican Conference on Onchocerciasis – sponsored by The Carter Center, the Pan American Health Organization, the Lions Clubs International Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates …
November 7, 2011, 2:13 pm
DRC Deaf Voter Education Empowers Those With No Voice
By Max Lockie
Carter Center long-term observer Max Lockie is based in Matadi, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Center established an office in Kinshasa in August and deployed 10 long-term observers to seven provinces: Kinshasa, Bas-Congo, Oriental Province, North Kivu, South Kivu, Katanga, and Kasai Oriental. In September, the Center deployed another 10 long-term observers to the remaining provinces. They will be …
November 3, 2011, 10:35 am
Carter Center Staff Participate in France-Atlanta 2011 Event
The Carter Center is partnering with the Consulate General of France in Atlanta and the Georgia Institute of Technology as part of “France-Atlanta 2011,” a series of 15 events being held Oct. 26-Nov. 12, designed to strengthen ties in the fields of science, economics, culture, and humanitarian work.
Nicole Kruse talks to students at Summerour Middle School in Norcross, Ga., …
October 17, 2011, 10:49 am
Georgia Institute of Technology Professor “Computes for Good” with Carter Center’s Mental Health Project in Liberia
By Paige Rohe
Paige Rohe is assistant director, news and information, of the Carter Center’s Office of Public Information.
A torrential rain began in Monrovia, Liberia, causing the power to flicker and the Internet to shut down, but Georgia Institute of Technology professor Dr. Ellen Zegura didn’t let the disruption stop the computer and software training session she was holding with Liberia’s first …
October 12, 2011, 1:39 pm
Voting Day: Liberia’s Oct. 11 Presidential and Legislative Elections
By Deborah Hakes
Deborah Hakes, assistant director of the Carter Center’s Office of Public Information, reports from Liberia, where the Carter Center’s international election observation team monitored the country’s Oct. 11 elections.
All Photos: D. Hakes/The Carter Center
Liberians lined up to vote on a rainy morning in Monrovia on Tuesday, Oct. 11. Credible elections in 2011 are a key test of whether …
October 5, 2011, 3:21 pm
Britain to Help Carter Center Secure Worldwide Eradication of Worm Disease
In London today, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter addressed an audience of international journalists and partners to announce that the Carter Center-led global campaign to eradicate Guinea worm disease has entered its final stage to end this gruesome waterborne parasitic infection.
“The poorest, most isolated, most neglected, quite often, the most hopeless people, on earth…now have new hope that their …
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