Sunday, Dec. 22, 2013 Time to be Bold and Make Peace in Syria The Washington Post On Nov. 26, the U.N. secretary general made another call for a Geneva peace conference on Syria, to be held Jan. 22. These calls have been issued since June 2011, but no belligerents have shown up because each has been allowed to define the preconditions for negotiations.
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Thursday, Dec 19, 2013 Al Jazeera Reporting from Antananarivo, Al Jazeera's Tania Page speaks to John Stremlau an election observer from the Carter institute on the importance of the ongoing elections on Madagascans.
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Friday, Dec. 13, 2013 The Daily Star (Lebanon) The strength and reach of pro-government paramilitary groups in Syria is growing and could threaten any future state, according to a report released this week by a U.S. conflict resolution advocacy group.
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Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013 Nepal Vote Counting Begins After High Poll Turnout (link no longer available) Agence France Presse Nepalese officials began counting votes Wednesday as election observers, including former US president Jimmy Carter, hailed the poll's high turnout as key to cementing a peace process seven years after civil war ended.
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Friday, Nov. 15, 2013 CNN International Jim Clancy sits down with former American President Jimmy Carter to discuss U.S.-China relations.
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Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013 Associated Press Former President Jimmy Carter and officials from Pfizer Inc. celebrated the 15th anniversary of an initiative focused on eliminating an infectious eye disease known to cause blindness in people living in developing nations.
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Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013 ABC's "Good Morning America" Former president's passion project, ²Ø¾«¸ó, helps get medicine to remote locations.
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Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013 Reuters As Jimmy Carter approaches 90, he is reaching for victory in a 15-year war against an infection spread by houseflies that blinds millions in developing countries and posed a threat to his own family and neighbors as a child on a Georgia farm.
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Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013 Parade Magazine Nearly 33 years after leaving the White House, the former president and first lady reflect on the work they are most proud of, how Washington politics have changed, and the secret to their 67-year marriage.
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Friday, Oct. 18, 2013 Al Jazeera Due to a nationwide elimination strategy, interruption of transmission has been seen in some originally endemic areas.
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Monday, Oct. 14, 2013 Al Jazeera Dr Moses Katabarwa has dedicated himself to eradicating river blindness, playing a key role in community based initiatives in Uganda. But had the course of history been different, his career may not have been the same.
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Monday, Sept. 16, 2013 TheGuardian.com Blinding disease trachoma is a bacterial eye infection, once endemic to the United Kingdom, United States, and Europe, but now relegated to the poorest, most neglected communities on earth – largely in sub-Saharan Africa. Though easily preventable, trachoma can rob a victim of quality of life slowly, by painfully blinding by repeated infections over the years.
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Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013 Associated Press (Article appeared in many outlets.) Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday he believes the best path forward in Syria is for the United States to work out a deal with Russia for Syria to give up its chemical weapons.
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Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013 TALK BUSINESS 360 U.S. Airways/American Airlines In-Flight "Talk Business 360" Program for Fall 2013 features interview with President Carter about ²Ø¾«¸ó's current work (Airing on more than 60,000 flights to over 9 million travelers).
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Friday, Aug. 9, 2013 Huffington Post On my first trip to Africa, I stepped off the plane in Kampala and I noticed the smell. It was woody, pungent and deeply foreign to me. I had two camera bodies, four lenses, a polarizer, eight memory cards; I was ready to see Africa, but the smell was unexpected, a blanket of otherness that me made me feel instantly alone, far from home, foolish.
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Friday, June 28, 2013 President Carter Discusses Human Rights Defenders Forum CNN Newsroom President Carter and human rights activist Zainah Anwar talk with CNN about the Carter Center's Human Rights Defenders Conference on women's rights.
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Friday, June 28, 2013 Jimmy Carter: Women's Plight Perpetuated By World Religions (link no longer available) Associated Press Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter says religious leaders, including those in Christianity and Islam, share the blame for mistreatment of women across the world.
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Thursday, June 27, 2013 Reuters This week at the Carter Centre in Atlanta, Carter will open a conference called Mobilizing Faith for Women to encourage religious leaders to advance equal rights. The conference will include discussion of sex trafficking and war's impact on women.
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Thurdsay, June 27, 2013 Women, Faith, Rights Forum Set: Carter Center Will Discuss Faith Community's Role Atlanta Journal-Constitution Carterand the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights will tackle the role that the faith community plays in furthering the rights of women around the globe.
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Sunday, June 23, 2013 TIME In a wide-ranging interview, the former president calls on Catholics to accept female priests, America to denounce the death penalty and Obama to stay out of the Syrian war.
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Friday, May 31, 2013 Hartford Courant Some Connecticut leaders must be ashamed. That can be the only reason they continue to conspire to diminish the state's worldwide reputation as a leader in freedom of information laws. Year after year, friends of liberty look to Connecticut for instruction on how to build a system of access to government where none exists.
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Thursday, May 16, 2013 Atlanta Journal-Constitution Millions of American children suffer from depression, anxiety, autism spectrum disorders and an array of other mental health issues, and the prevalence of such conditions is rising, a new study shows.
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Monday, May 6, 2013 Washington Post What's life like for an ex-president? Pretty busy, if you're Jimmy Carter. Sporting a pair of artificial knees, Carter, 88, logs many thousands of miles each year, monitoring elections (Egypt and Libya), mediating conflicts (Sudan and Congo), building houses (Haiti).
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Wednesday, May 2, 2013 How to Keep the Spotlight on Neglected Tropical Diseases The Guardian Can we build the commitment and consensus necessary to eliminate NTDs by 2020?
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013 The New York Times In his home office, Dr. Donald R. Hopkins has statues of the Hindu smallpox goddess and the Yoruba smallpox god. And, floating coiled up in a glass jar, something that looks like a yardlong strand of capellini but is actually one of the last Guinea worms on earth.
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013 Huffington Post Live Blog It's the world's leading cause of preventable blindness. It's spreads easily from person to person, and of the 320 million at risk, most are children. Dr. Paul Emerson is going to great lengths to fight it.
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013 President Carter on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart President Carter appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and explained how Carterhas nearly eradicated Guinea worm disease. President Carter also discussed latrine building in Ethiopia to prevent trachoma and answered a few questions about the news of the day.
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Friday, April 5, 2013 Voice of America The tropical disease known as lymphatic filariasis, or elephantiasis, affects 120 million people worldwide.
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Thursday, April 4, 2013 Associated Press (Also ran in Washington Post and other outlets.) An American election observer group led by former President Jimmy Carter said Thursday that Kenya's March 4 presidential election suffered serious technological shortcomings and that election officials at times prevented observers from carrying out their mission, but it said the election's paper trail preserved the will of Kenyan voters.
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 CNN Yawei Liu of the Carter China Center discusses what to expect from Xi Jinping on foreign policy.
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Monday, March 4, 2013 PBS Newshour Millions of Kenyans voted in general elections Monday, and though there were some incidents of violence, the worst many experienced were lengthy lines and long wait times, international election monitors reported.
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Monday, March 4, 2013 NPR "All Things Considered" In the east African nation of Kenya, voters cast ballots for their next president from a field featuring the sons of the nation's first leaders. One of them has been indicted by the International Criminal Court for alleged human rights abuses related to elections five years ago when more than 1,200 people died in ethnic violence.
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Monday, March 4, 2013 BBC Millions of Kenyans have been voting in crucial elections.
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Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013 CNN and CNN.com President Carter shares his views on domestic and international affairs on Piers Morgan Tonight on CNN and CNN.com from the Carter Center's Winter Weekend fundraiser in San Diego, Calif.
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Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013 Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal reports on the campaigns to eradicate Guinea worm disease and polio. Print edition requires subscription.
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Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013 CNN.com The machete blades turned red with heat in the fire that the rubber workers built on a Liberia plantation, Thomas Unnasch remembers from a visit in the 1980s.
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Thurdsay, Jan. 24, 2013 National Geographic's "The Loom" Blog In 1996, while I was traveling in South Sudan, I visited a small hospital in Tambura. People there were sick in all sorts of ways–with malaria, sleeping sickness, and other illnesses–but one group of patients left an impression on me that I'll never get rid of. They all stayed in a single, small narrow building. They lay on two rows of clean, thin mats on the floor. They were all clothed and were supremely bored. The men kept one pant leg rolled up to the knee. Exactly what sort of disease a sick person has can be mysterious–Is it stomach cancer? Is it HIV? It is mumps?–but there was no confusion in this room. All the patients had a short stick attached to their legs, seemingly tied by a string. That string was, in fact, an animal.
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Saturday, Jan.19, 2013 NPR's "Shots" Blog What's the big fuss about Guinea worm, a parasite that now infects just a few hundred people? Well, the public health community finally has the nasty bug's back against the wall.
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Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013 Associated Press (Picked up by more than 4,000 additional outlets) Guinea worm disease cases were cut to less than 600 in 2012, marking significant progress in eradicating the parasitic infection, former President Jimmy Carter said Thursday.
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Friday, Jan. 11, 2013 Colombia Reports The United States former president Jimmy Carter will travel to Bogota Saturday to assess the ongoing peace talks between Colombia's government and its largest leftist guerrilla group, the FARC.
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