July 5, 2011, 1:31 pm
By The Carter Center
Reporter Michael Biesecker’s coverage of mental health issues began with a high-speed car chase following a robbery. In the course of Biesecker’s investigation, he found that although the driver was in a psychotic state two weeks before the crime, he had been turned away from the state’s psychiatric hospital.
“We began researching why people were not getting help, why the …
July 5, 2011, 1:21 pm
By The Carter Center
With approximately 95 percent of the world’s remaining Guinea worm cases, South Sudan looks to be the final battleground in the fight to wipe out this debilitating worm worldwide. The Southern Sudan Guinea Worm Eradication Program, together with The Carter Center, has almost 10,000 dedicated local health workers on the ground, working everywhere from the bustling capital of Juba to …
April 25, 2011, 9:14 am
By The Carter Center
Listen to Sophie Borel talk about why the alert system was established.
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In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, human rights activists often face intimidation and threats of violence, a situation expected to worsen as November 2011 national elections approach.
“I often get calls in the evening or at night from human rights defenders …
April 11, 2011, 8:21 am
By The Carter Center
Ratna Osman, acting executive director of Malaysia’s Sisters in Islam, was one of a diverse group of 72 human rights activists and religious scholars from 22 countries to attend the Carter Center’s human rights defenders forum this week in Atlanta.
Through Sisters in Islam, Osman creates public awareness and advocates for reform to advance women’s rights in Islam.
“We are …
April 6, 2011, 12:43 pm
By The Carter Center
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter urged religious communities to promote, not hinder, women’s rights during his opening remarks at the 2011 Human Rights Defenders Forum taking place at The Carter Center in Atlanta, Ga., April 3-6. The remarks were a follow up to a speech he gave to the Parliament of the World’s Religions in 2009.
The forum was attended …
March 28, 2011, 8:42 am
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 …
March 8, 2011, 3:29 pm
By The Carter Center
The Andean-U.S. Dialogue Forum, a citizens’ forum created to identify and contribute solutions to multilateral problems and tensions among the Andean countries (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela) and the United States, has issued a report outlining a common agenda to improve cooperation among the nations.
“Many of these countries have tensions with each other at the governmental level on …
February 18, 2011, 4:12 pm
By The Carter Center
The Carter Center Awards for Guinea Worm Eradication were presented to Nigeria and Niger during a special ceremony held Feb. 17, 2011, in Atlanta, Ga.
The two countries, which share a border, join 14 other nations that have wiped out Guinea worm disease since The Carter Center spearheaded the international eradication campaign in 1986. Nigeria—formerly the most Guinea worm-endemic country …
January 6, 2011, 1:01 pm
By Deborah Hakes
Deborah Hakes is assistant director of public information for The Carter Center.
More than 100 Carter Center observers will be deployed across Sudan and in eight out-of-country voting locations to witness voting in the referendum for the self-determination of Southern Sudan, as part of one of the Center’s largest observation missions. Most observers are currently being briefed in Juba, Sudan, …
December 29, 2010, 3:30 pm
By The Carter Center
The people of South Sudan will vote beginning Jan. 9 to decide whether they wish to remain unified with the North or to form a separate country. Hear more about the significance of the upcoming referendum, the challenges ahead, and the Carter Center’s contribution to the process:
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