Content Type: Policy Brief / Publishing Institution: The Carter Center / Political Geography: Africa / Journal: / Topic: Human Rights

Publication Date:: 09-2007
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: The Carter Center
Abstract:: My original concept for The Carter Center was a place for mediation, a place where leaders of countries or regions in conflict could come to resolve their differences. Looking at the work of the Center today, with programs that have touched lives in more than 70 countries promoting peace and good health, it is safe to say that the Center has far exceeded Rosalynn' s and my initial dreams.
Topic:: International Relations, Human Rights, and Poverty
Political Geography:: Africa

Publication Date:: 03-2007
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: The Carter Center
Abstract:: Six-year-old Ruhmam Issah cries as a health worker slowly removes a long, spaghetti-like worm from her swollen ankle. Beside Issah, here in dusty Savelugu, Ghana, is former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, providing comfort to the girl by way of gentle pats and kind words. President Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, visited the hospital in northern Ghana where Issah was being treated to meet with dozens of Guinea worm disease patients receiving care in a national effort to eradicate the disease by this time next year.
Topic:: International Relations and Human Rights
Political Geography:: Africa and Democratic Republic of the Congo

Publication Date:: 09-2006
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: The Carter Center
Abstract:: Marcel Wetsh'okonda fights for human rights laws to be passed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a country where 1,000 people die each day from disease, hunger, and vio-lence. It is no easy task.
Topic:: International Relations, Democratization, and Human Rights
Political Geography:: Africa and Democratic Republic of the Congo

Publication Date:: 09-2005
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: The Carter Center
Abstract:: Increased competition and opposition participation in elections observed by The Carter Center in Liberia and Ethiopia marked progress for democracy in Africa in recent months. Ethiopia's May 2005 elections for national parliament, which gave citizens ademocratic choice for the first time, were sharply contested by opposition groups. In the Oct. 11 Liberian presidential and legislative elections, the country's first truly competitive elections in 25 years, 22 candidates vied for the presidency.
Topic:: International Relations, Democratization, Human Rights, and Political Economy
Political Geography:: Africa, Liberia, and Ethiopia

Publication Date:: 03-2005
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: The Carter Center
Abstract:: Imagine a nation almost half the size of the United States where large portions of the population are sick—not with just one disease but several at once. Such is the daily reality for those living in Nigeria, a nation with one of the highest burdens of disease in Africa.
Topic:: Government, Human Rights, Human Welfare, and Peace Studies
Political Geography:: Africa, United States, and Nigeria

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