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Date: 2014
Credit: LBJ Library
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, 2014.
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Date: Aug. 20, 2015
Credit: Áù¾ÅÉ«ÌÃ
At a press conference at Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà in Atlanta on Aug. 20, 2015, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter discusses his cancer diagnosis. He said cancer originally found in a mass on his liver had spread to his brain. After making remarks, he answered questions from the media and reflected on his life’s work.
Date: Dec. 10, 2002
Credit: Áù¾ÅÉ«ÌÃ
Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony, Oslo City Hall, Dec. 10, 2002.
Date: 1993
Credit: Rick Diamond
In 1982, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter became a university distinguished professor at Emory University in Atlanta and founded Áù¾ÅÉ«ÌÃ. Actively guided by President Carter, the nonpartisan and not-for-profit Center advances peace and health worldwide. Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà staff and partners join with President Carter in efforts to resolve conflict, promote democracy, protect human rights, and prevent disease and other afflictions.
Date: October 2005
Credit: Áù¾ÅÉ«ÌÃ
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
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Date: March 16, 1979
Credit: The Jimmy Carter Library
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat (left), U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin make a three-way handshake at the signing of the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty.
Date: Feb. 15, 2007
Credit: Áù¾ÅÉ«ÌÃ
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, visited children suffering from schistosomiasis during their Feb. 15, 2007, trip to Nasarawa North, Nigeria. The Carters traveled to the community to bring national attention to the country’s need to make disease prevention methods and treatments with the medicine praziquantel more accessible in its rural and impoverished communities.
Date: Oct. 1, 2009
Credit: Áù¾ÅÉ«ÌÃ
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter celebrates his 85th birthday and the grand reopening of the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum on Oct. 1, 2009. The museum underwent a multimillion-dollar renovation that included adding a large section devoted to his post-presidency.
Date: Feb. 8, 2007
Credit: Áù¾ÅÉ«ÌÃ
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter comforts six-year-old Ruhama Issah at Savelugu Hospital on Feb. 8, 2007, as Adams Bawa, a Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà technical assistant, dresses her extremely painful Guinea worm wound.
To end the social and economic consequences associated with this horrific disease, Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà spearheads the international Guinea worm eradication campaign. Since 1986, Guinea worm disease (dracunculiasis) has been reduced by more than 99 percent. Today, Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà and its partners, in collaboration with thousands of dedicated community health workers, continue to intensify efforts to fight the last fraction of 1 percent of Guinea worm disease. Thanks to this work, Guinea worm is poised to be the next disease eradicated and will be the first to be overcome without a vaccine or medicine.
Date: 2007
Credit: Áù¾ÅÉ«ÌÃ
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter attends the 2007 Human Rights Defenders Forum at Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà in Atlanta, Ga.
Date: Nov. 18, 2013
Credit: Áù¾ÅÉ«ÌÃ
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter greets a Nepalese boy in Kathmandu. Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà monitored Nepal’s November 2013 constituent assembly election, sending 66 observers from 31 countries to visit 336 polling centers in 31 districts.
Date: May 2002
Credit: Áù¾ÅÉ«ÌÃ
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter shakes the hands of eager schoolchildren during his historic trip to Cuba.
Accepting an invitation from Cuba President Fidel Castro, President Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, headed a Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà delegation to Cuba, making him the first seated or former U.S. president to visit Cuba since the 1959 Cuban revolution. In an unprecedented live speech broadcast on Cuban television, President Carter called on the United States to end an “ineffective 43-year-old economic embargo” and on President Castro to hold free elections, improve human rights, and allow greater civil liberties.
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Date: Oct. 6, 2005
Credit: Áù¾ÅÉ«ÌÃ
Preparing to count by lanternlight, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter observes poll closing procedures in Monrovia during Liberia’s 2005 national elections. Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà sent a 40-person delegation to observe the elections. Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà has been a pioneer of election observation, monitoring national elections to help deter fraud and reassure voters their votes would count.
Date: Sept. 10, 2013
Credit: Áù¾ÅÉ«ÌÃ
On Sept. 10, 2013, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter participates in an online video discussion about challenges facing global health. The discussion was hosted on Google+, and President Carter was joined by New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof in New York and Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà disease eradication specialist Dr. Donald Hopkins in Chicago.
Date: Feb. 8, 2007
Credit: Áù¾ÅÉ«ÌÃ
At Savelugu Hospital in Northern Region Ghana, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, watch as a Guinea worm health worker dresses a child’s extremely painful Guinea worm wound.
To end the social and economic consequences associated with this horrific disease, Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà spearheads the international Guinea worm eradication campaign. Since 1986, Guinea worm disease (dracunculiasis) has been reduced by more than 99 percent. Today, Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà and its partners, in collaboration with thousands of dedicated community health workers, continue to intensify efforts to fight the last fraction of 1 percent of Guinea worm disease. Thanks to this work, Guinea worm is poised to be the next disease eradicated and will be the first to be overcome without a vaccine or medicine.
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Date: Feb. 8, 2007
Credit: Áù¾ÅÉ«ÌÃ
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter wear traditional Ghanaian attire, a gift from the chief of Tingoli village in northern Ghana, where Áù¾ÅÉ«ÌÃ, in partnership with Ghana’s Ministry of Health, is working to eradicate Guinea worm disease and eliminate trachoma. The Carters visited the village Feb. 8, 2007, as part of a two-week health tour of remote African villages.
Date: Jan. 9, 2011
Credit: Áù¾ÅÉ«ÌÃ
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter talks to voters in Juba, Southern Sudan, on Jan. 9, 2011, in a historic referendum on secession observed by Áù¾ÅÉ«ÌÃ. Several million Southern Sudanese voted nearly unanimously for separation from Sudan, resulting in the formation of South Sudan as an independent nation. Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà observed the entirety of the referendum process, beginning in August 2010 and continuing through the conclusion of polling, counting, and tabulation of votes.
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