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Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter is a former President of the United States and the founder of the nonprofit Carter Center in Atlanta.
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Ending Child Marriage
Jimmy Carter and Fernando Henrique Cardoso Series: Human Rights 2010-09-17One might think that addressing child marriage would be high on both national and global agendas, given the powerful evidence of the damage that it causes to individuals and societies. But the discrepancy between the scale and seriousness of the problem and the attention it has received is striking.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 1 Read: 13510
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Cyprus’s Last Best Chance
Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter and Lakhdar Brahimi Series: Europe at Home and Abroad 2009-05-04
It is tempting to see the results of the recent parliamentary elections in northern Cyprus as a blow for the peace process. But Cyprus can still seize their best – and quite possibly their last – chance in 30 years to achieve a federal settlement.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 27665
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A Human Rights Crime In Gaza
Jimmy Carter Series: The World in Words 2008-05-06Atlanta -- The world is witnessing a terrible human rights crime in Gaza, where a million and a half human beings are being imprisoned with almost no access to the outside world by sea, air, or land. An entire population is being brutally punished. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 18723
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Nuclear Steps Undermine Peace
Jimmy Carter Series: The World in Words 2007-09-07The Bush administration’s proposed agreement to sell nuclear supplies to India marks a further move toward opening a Pandora’s box of proliferation, while no significant steps are being taken to reduce the worldwide arsenal of almost 30,000 nuclear weapons. Indeed, a global holocaust is just as possible now, through mistakes or misjudgments, as it was during the Cold War.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 16982
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Stop the Band-Aid Treatment
Jimmy Carter Series: The World in Words 2006-08-01The Middle East is a tinderbox, with some key players on all sides waiting for every opportunity to destroy their enemies with bullets, bombs and missiles. One of the special vulnerabilities of Israel, and a repetitive cause of violence, is the holding of prisoners. Militant Palestinians and Lebanese know that a captured Israeli soldier or civilian is either a cause of conflict or a valuable bargaining chip for prisoner exchange. This assumption is based on a number of such trades, including 1,150 Arabs, mostly Palestinians, for three Israelis in 1985; 123 Lebanese for the remains of two Israeli soldiers in 1996; and 433 Palestinians and others for an Israeli businessman and the bodies of three soldiers in 2004. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 17559
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Colonization of Palestine Precludes Peace
Jimmy Carter Series: The World in Words 2006-03-09For more than a quarter century, Israeli policy has been in conflict with that of the United States and the international community. Israel’s occupation of Palestine has obstructed a comprehensive peace agreement in the Holy Land, regardless of whether Palestinians had no formalized government, one headed by Yasir Arafat or Mahmoud Abbas, or with Abbas as president and Hamas controlling the parliament and cabinet. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 25858
