The Carter Center helps to fund water filters, education, medical care and mobilizing community health workers.
After leaving office, he founded the Carter Center to promote global health, democracy and human rights.
The international group includes delegations from the Union of South American Nations and the Atlanta-based Carter Center.
International campaign observers, including the Atlanta-based Carter Center, complained that the Egyptian government offered limited access to their observers.
The Carter Center said it helped launch congomines.org to give people more information about the mining sector, including contracts and payments.
His Atlanta-based Carter Center has also established health programmes which have all but eradicated guinea-worm disease, and is successfully tackling river blindness.
Ultimately, Venezuela's Supreme Court could be asked to decide, said Jennifer McCoy, director of the Americas program at the Atlanta-based Carter Center.
The Carter Center is working with UNICEF and the World Health Organization to support local eradication programs in each of the countries affected.
South Sudan has the most known cases today, at 521, followed by Chad (10), Mali (7), and Ethiopia (4), according to the Carter Center.
The Carter Center - a rights organisation founded by former US president Jimmy Carter - launched the site with funding from the government of Belgium, the former colonial power.
"(Chavez) has definitely given an identity and feeling of self-respect to people who felt invisible and ignored, " said Jennifer McCoy, director of the Americas Program at the Carter Center in Atlanta.
Cases of Guinea worm, a parasite that slowly burns through the skin, are down from 3.5 million in 1986 to 25, 000 last year, thanks to efforts of the Carter Center and others.
Yet, the vote was supervised by the Carter Center, which congratulated the electoral process and praised it for the way it was conducted mostly for "the good facilities available for the handicapped".
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, whose Carter Center observed the elections, which issued preliminary findings about the runoff -- said Tuesday that he was "deeply troubled by the undemocratic turn" in Egypt's transition.
His pro-Cuban, socialist policies are also controversial domestically and have increasingly polarized the nation and national media, according to the Atlanta-based Carter Center, which provided election monitors in the nation's 2006 presidential elections.
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Elizabeth Caesens, the head of the Carter Center's mining governance project in DR Congo, said www.congomines.org would make it easier for the public to track developments in the industry, including money allocated for development.
The program in Mali, however, has not been able to operate fully, or at all, in areas occupied by rebel groups, said Ernesto Ruiz-Tiben, director of the Guinea Worm Eradication Program at the Carter Center.
Indeed, in keeping with his Carter Center's self-appointed status as global election monitor, the former president did officiate in January 2006 when the Brotherhood's terrorists defeated those of Fatah led by Yasser Arafat's longtime crony, Mahmoud Abbas.
Carter and his staff will attempt to arrange for a return letter from Shalit's parents to their son and hope that an arrangement enabling Shalit's release will be reached soon, according to a statement from the Carter Center.
No slouch academically, Harrison has degrees in International Relations and Conflict Resolution from Syracuse University, walking away from an opportunity fresh out of school to work with the Carter Center (President Carter even created a division for her).
The opposition was arguing that Maduro should have served both as interim president, without being sworn in, and vice president, said Jennifer McCoy, director of the Americas Program at the Carter Center and professor of political science at Georgia State University.
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Graca Machel, wife of former South Africa President Nelson Mandela -- all of whom belong to a group of world leaders called the Elders -- had hoped to visit Zimbabwe on their recent trip to the region but were denied visas, according to Tsvangirai and a statement from the Carter Center.
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The convention begins with a flourish, with Clinton and Carter taking center stage, much as they did two times each upon accepting the Democratic presidential nomination.
Carter vowed to put human rights at the center of U.S. foreign policy.
The Center finds it instructive that another former Carter hand, Secretary Christopher, chose not to repudiate Tarnoff or to disassociate himself from his remarks.
With his support of deregulation and deficit reduction, Jimmy Carter moved market-based Democrats even further to the center.
Backup center Baye Moussa Keita (47) and starting point guard Michael Carter-Williams (45) lead the way.
On Sunday, before a capacity crowd at the David Horowitz Freedom Center's Restoration Weekend in Palm Beach, Florida, the former advisor to George McGovern and Jimmy Carter depicted the election as one the Republicans lost more than the Democrats won.
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