Rebecca Palpant Shimkets, assistant director in the Carter Center’s Mental Health Program, describes the stigma facing people with mental illnesses and how the Carter Center’s activities aim to help.
The Carter Center Blog
May 13, 2013, 4:45 pm
Q&A With Rebecca Palpant Shimkets on Fighting Stigma Against People with Mental Illness
By Rebecca Palpant Shimkets
April 17, 2013, 5:25 pm
Dr. Paul Emerson and Huffington Post Live Launch Carter Center’s Call for Action Against Trachoma
By The Carter Center
This is an excerpt from Carter Center Trachoma Control Program Director Dr. Paul Emerson’s Huffington Post Blog, “The Eye of the Beholder: Why Fighting Trachoma Matters.”
June 4, 2012, 8:19 am
Carter Center Health Programs Vice President Dr. Donald R. Hopkins Receives “Pumphandle” Epidemiology Award
By The Carter Center
Omaha, NE — Legendary eradication expert Dr. Donald R. Hopkins received the prestigious Pumphandle Award June 3 from the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE), honoring his outstanding contributions to applied epidemiology.
“Donald Hopkins is renowned as an eradication expert, and his unwavering commitment to improving the lives of the world’s most disadvantaged people using a data-driven approach is …
November 3, 2011, 10:35 am
Carter Center Staff Participate in France-Atlanta 2011 Event
By The Carter Center
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., …
March 28, 2011, 8:42 am
Upcoming Forum to Promote Women’s Rights
By The Carter Center
From April 3-6, human rights leaders and scholars will gather at The Carter Center to discuss the key challenges that women’s rights activists face and ways to work with religious, traditional, and government institutions to advance the protection of these rights.
“The idea came out of a speech that President Carter gave to the Parliament of World Religions in 2009 …
August 17, 2010, 10:26 am
Carter Center Experts Publish Article on Obligations for Democratic Elections
By The Carter Center
A groundbreaking project to identify and foster concensus on common standards for what constitutes a genuinely democratic election is the focus of a recently-published article in Democratization by Carter Center Democracy Program Assistant Director Avery Davis-Roberts and Director David Carroll. The article’s premise–that use of public international law provides an objective basis by which to assess elections–has also led the …
April 15, 2010, 10:42 am
Final Day of Voting in Sudan; Carter Center Observes Across Country
By Deborah Hakes
Watch Carter Center observers in Sudan as Sarah Johnson, assistant director of the Democracy Program, explains the significance of these elections and importance of having an observer presence.
April 7, 2010, 5:49 pm
Cote d’Ivoire Elections Face Challenges, Carter Center Remains Engaged
By David Pottie
Recent political events in Cote d’Ivoire introduced a serious disruption, hopefully temporary, of election preparations and demonstrated how easily the West African country could slide back into conflict. Elections there have been delayed several times; The Carter Center has been the only international election observation group present during the entire process and has deployed teams of observers for different phases …
March 9, 2010, 12:15 pm
Experts to Discuss Recent Crises of Democracy in the Western Hemisphere on March 15
By The Carter Center
A series of experts, including Carter Center Americas Program Director Jennifer McCoy and former Latin American leaders, will convene on March 15 at Georgia State University (GSU) to analyze recent democratic crises in the region, including the Honduran coup and recent events in Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
The speakers are part of the Friends of the Democratic Charter, a …
March 8, 2010, 10:07 am
Join Us for Conversations on Wednesday, March 10
By John Stremlau
In his new book, “Wars, Guns, and Votes,” Oxford economist Paul Collier argues that the international community – presumably including The Carter Center – focuses too much on holding elections and ignores the underlying problems of insecurity and lack of checks and balances essential for democratic development. Collier will discuss his concerns during a Carter Center Conversation on Wednesday from …
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