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The center's website declares that it is guided by the principles of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, including, "a fundamental commitment to human rights and the alleviation of human suffering" while ...
Jimmy Carter, the former U.S. president known as a champion of international human rights both during and after his White House tenure and who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his lifetime of ...
Jimmy Carter, shown during his winning presidential campaign in October 1976, dedicated his time after leaving office to charity work and advancing human rights.
ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who tried to restore virtue to the White House after the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, then rebounded from a landslide defeat to become a global advocate of human rights and democracy, has died. He was 100 years old.
In 1982, Carter founded the Carter Center, [422] a non-governmental and non-profit organization with the purpose of advancing human rights and alleviating human suffering, [423] including helping improve the quality of life for people in more than 80 countries. [424]
[8] In 2012, Carter wrote an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times supporting passage of a state referendum which would have ended the death penalty. [9] Carter has also called for commutations of death sentences for many death-row inmates, including Brian K. Baldwin (executed in 1999), [10] Kenneth Foster (commuted in 2007) [11] [12] and Troy Davis ...
Carter's only term as president ended on Jan. 20, 1981. Jimmy Carter's life after presidency. Carter Center: Carter created the Carter Center, a human rights organization. Accolades of the ...
Carter supported China in its short border war with Vietnam in 1979. One surprise was his support for the Khmer Rouge forces in Cambodia fighting against Vietnam's invasion, despite its terrible human rights record. [80] Carter was hostile to Pakistan because of its human rights violations and efforts to build nuclear weapons.