The Carter Center

Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.), thirty-ninth president of the United States and Nobel laureate, was born Oct. 1, 1924, in the small farming town of Plains, Ga.

Some of the Carter administration's significant foreign policy accomplishments included the Panama Canal treaties, the Camp David Accords, the treaty of peace between Egypt and Israel, the SALT II treaty with the Soviet Union, and the establishment of U.S. diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China. He championed human rights throughout the world. On the domestic side, the administration's achievements included a comprehensive energy program conducted by a new Department of Energy; deregulation in energy, transportation, communications, and finance; major educational programs under a new Department of Education; and major environmental protection legislation, including the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act.

In 1982, in partnership with Emory University, President Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, founded The Carter Center. Actively guided by President and Mrs. Carter, the nonpartisan and nonprofit Center works to resolve conflict, promote democracy, protect human rights, and prevent disease and other afflictions.

On Dec. 10, 2002, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2002 to Mr. Carter "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development."

Learn more about President Carter:
http://www.cartercenter.org/news/experts/jimmy_carter.html

The Carter Center:
http://www.cartercenter.org/about/index.html

Carter Center Peace Programs:
http://www.cartercenter.org/peace/index.html

Carter Center Health Programs:
http://www.cartercenter.org/health/index.html

For more information, please visit http://www.cartercenter.org.

"People everywhere share the dream of a world
without violence, disease, poverty, and injustice. For
more than 25 years, The Carter Center has spread
hope by taking action in partnership with others to
overcome these challenges. Our staff helps others by offering them the tools and knowledge they need to improve their own lives. Progress can be seen in the faces of forgotten peoples who have found new hope by casting their first vote, ridding their villages of debilitating diseases, or laying down arms for the prospect of peace. Underlying all of our work is our belief in the basic human rights to live in peace, free from oppression, and with adequate food, shelter, health care, and economic opportunity." -- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter

At The Carter Center, we work to build hope in some of the world's most impoverished and forgotten communities. Our Health Programs prevent the suffering of millions of people around the world from diseases often ignored by others. Many of the most severe afflictions are entirely preventable. Yet people living in developing nations die or are disabled because they do not have access to the services they need to treat their illness or avoid infection entirely. Every day our experts show people how they can take steps to transform their own lives. For more information on the Carter Center's Health Programs, please visit: http://cartercenter.org/health/index.html