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The council of world leaders launched by former South Africa president Nelson Mandela is sending a three-person team to the troubled Middle East.
Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan, former US president Jimmy Carter and former Irish president Mary Robinson, will visit Israel, the Palestinian territories, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Saudi Arabia next month.
The trio would "help people understand the urgency of peace," the organisation known as The Elders said in a statement.
Launched last year to celebrate Mandela's 89th birthday, the group of 12 world leaders is dedicated to fostering peace and resolving global crises.
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Although much of Latin America currently is experiencing fast economic growth, the region's vast poverty still must be addressed and The Carter Center could play an important role in that, a former president of Peru said.
Alejandro Toledo, who was Peru's president from 2001 to 2006, spoke with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on Thursday about how the Atlanta-based center could help address poverty in Latin America. Toledo was in Atlanta to participate in a Carter Center conference on developing "right to information" laws around the world, similar to the U.S. Freedom of Information Act.
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Former President Jimmy Carter says the Bush administration has violated Americans' basic human rights by blocking access to information and creating more government secrets than at any other time in U.S. history.
Carter spoke during a conference helping people in the United States and in other nations to develop "access to information" laws. The seminar at The Carter Center in Atlanta - believed to be the first conference on helping foreign countries develop "access to information" laws - drew participants from nearly 40 nations, center officials said.
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The Carter Center is well known for overseeing elections and protecting health and human rights worldwide, but it also has another program less familiar to the public: helping establish laws similar to the U.S. Freedom of Information Act in foreign countries.
Beginning Wednesday, the Atlanta-based organization is hosting what's believed to be the first conference on helping foreign countries develop "access to information" laws, drawing participants from nearly 40 nations. The dignitaries include former President Jimmy Carter, Bolivian President Evo Morales and Mali President Amadou Toumani Toure.
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Jimmy Carter isn’t a real saint, but he plays one in a new documentary. That film, “Jimmy Carter Man From Plains,” was directed by Jonathan Demme and is a friendly, at times fawning, at times gaga 126-minute chronicle of the former president’s 2006 national book tour to promote and occasionally defend his best seller “Palestine Peace Not Apartheid.” Much like its subject, the film is approachable and tonally unmodulated. It delivers even its loudest, most contentious points in a quiet, measured, indoor voice.
Mr. Demme has said that he liked Mr. Carter as a president and has “admired what he has accomplished since.” That much seems clear from “Man From Plains,” which opens with archival images of Lillian Carter on “The Tonight Show” telling Johnny Carson (resplendent in an eye-popping plaid suit) that Jimmy, her eldest child, never criticizes her. From this affirmation — of the mother’s love, of the son’s magnanimity — the film cuts to what will become one of its more recurrent images of Mr. Carter, of him seated in a car or a plane, and talking to the camera, or into a cellphone, or to an assistant, or to a Secret Service agent as the world races and sometimes drifts by him through the adjacent window.
When Mr. Carter isn’t talking in a car or a plane, he’s discoursing on television and radio. Mr. Demme never obviously joins in the conversation, though he communicates through each image, camera angle and edit. His choices speak volumes about what he would like us to know about Mr. Carter: the former president flies commercial, handles his own luggage (he even waves off the help of one hotel doorman) and reads the Bible daily with his wife, Rosalynn. He helps build houses for Habitat for Humanity and hugs children. He loves Israel. But he wants it to stop oppressing the Palestinian people because it’s the right thing to do and because it will lead to peace in the Mideast. It’s that simple...
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October 2 07: A group of elder statesmen, including former President Carter and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu, urged all sides in Darfur’s bloodshed to reach a peace deal as the delegation began touring the region Tuesday.
The group of prominent international personalities is trying to use their influence at a crucial time, with peace talks due to start in Libya and a U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force to begin deploying later this month.
The visit also comes days after a stunning attack in which rebels overran an African peacekeepers base in northern Darfur, killing 10 — the deadliest attack on the force since it arrived in the region three years ago.
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