February 16, 2010, 9:39 am
By The Carter Center
Working with monitors from the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission (JPC), The Carter Center supports legal advice services in marginalized rural communities through a network of 32 Community Legal Advisors (CLAs) in eight counties.
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CLAs are either stationed in major towns or travel from village to village as ‘mobile’ monitors. They offer free advice …
June 7, 2009, 5:00 pm
By Deborah Hakes
Deborah Hakes is assistant director of public information for The Carter Center.
The long lines surprised all of us. They wound down stairs and through the hallways of elementary schools, municipal buildings, and other polling sites where we visited. It made walking from polling station to polling station a very crowded affair.
The voters seemed in good spirits though, often …
