The Carter Center is guided by the principles of our Founders, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. Founded, in partnership with Emory University, on a fundamental commitment to human rights and the alleviation of human suffering, the Center seeks to prevent and resolve conflicts, enhance freedom and democracy, and improve health.
Browse highlights of the Center's work in the timeline below.
Nov. 20: A Carter Center advertising campaign promoting American unity wins a silver Anthem Award from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.
Nov. 13: An election observation mission in Fulton County, Georgia, that included The Carter Center concludes that the Nov. 5 general election was smooth, transparent, and well-organized.
Oct. 1: Former President Jimmy Carter turns 100 years old. He is the longest-living president in U.S. history.
Sept. 30: The Carter Center hosts a panel discussion on safe, secure, and accessible elections in the state of Georgia. Panelists include Carter Center Board of Trustees Chair Jason Carter, former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, Georgia Democracy Task Force Co-Chair Ryan Germany, and former Georgia Attorney General Samuel Olens.
Sept. 17: The Carter Center presents Jimmy Carter 100: A Celebration in Song, a concert event to celebrate the 100th birthday of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Performers and presenters include Angélique Kidjo, BeBe Winans, Carlene Carter, Duane Betts, India Arie, Lalah Hathaway, The B-52s, Drive-By Truckers, Dale Murphy, Dr. Bernice King, and Renée Zellweger. Delta Air Lines is the presenting sponsor.
Sept. 15: The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, The Carter Center, the National Democratic Institute, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, and the Kofi Annan Foundation announce the release of Model Commitments for Advancing Genuine and Credible Elections.
July 30: The Carter Center declares that Venezuela’s July 28 presidential election did not meet international standards of electoral integrity and cannot be considered democratic.
July 24: The Carter Center concludes that despite some improvements, the December 2023 general elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo fell short of meeting some key international commitments for democratic elections.
July 2: The 2024 Carter Center Weekend raises more than $2.8 million in donations and auction sales to support the Center’s mission of waging peace and combating disease.
June 10: The Carter Center launches the Climate and Environmental Justice Initiative in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
June 6: The Carter Center announces a new journalism fellowship focused on climate change’s impact on mental health.
May 17: The Carter Center and Arizona State University’s McCain Institute publish “The Disinformation Economy,” a joint report that examines the prevalence of disinformation on over 300 advertising systems and how many of these platforms facilitate the monetization of disinformation.
May 17: The Carter Center and Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy host panel discussions on guiding principles for election administration and reforms.
May 14: The Carter Center convenes its 28th Rosalynn Carter Georgia Mental Health Forum, which explores pressing mental health issues in Georgia and the rest of the country.
April 4: The Carter Center publishes “Modernizing Sino-U.S. Confidence-Building Measures: Cold War Case Studies and Chinese Perspectives,” the latest installment in the Finding Firmer Ground report series examining how rising Sino-American tensions have prompted widespread discussion of a “New Cold War.”
March 6: The Carter Center announces that only 14 human cases of Guinea worm disease were reported worldwide in 2023.
March 6: The Carter Center releases a new Journalism Resource Guide for Mental Health Reporting. The guide provides up-to-date statistics, resources, and guidance on how to report on mental health issues accurately and sensitively.
Feb. 12: The Carter Center releases the final report from its international election observation mission to Zimbabwe’s Aug. 23, 2023, harmonized elections. The report concludes that the overall electoral process did not meet Zimbabwe’s regional and international commitments or the democratic aspirations of Zimbabweans.
Feb. 8: At a press conference held during its inaugural Mental Health Parity Day at Georgia’s State Capitol, The Carter Center releases results of its first Georgia mental health parity awareness campaign, demonstrating a significant increase in public awareness of their mental health rights.
Jan. 23: The United States Agency for International Development, The Carter Center, and the Information Commission in Dhaka announce the launch of a new phase of the USAID-funded Advancing Women’s Right of Access to Information in Bangladesh project.
Nov. 2: Carter Center representatives arrive in Venezuela following the signing of electoral conditions by the government and opposition.
Oct. 31: Carter Center calls for a cease-fire in Gaza, the return of hostages, and the opening of humanitarian corridors.
Oct. 30: The Carter Center pursues its Candidate Principles initiative in Kentucky, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
Oct. 8: The Carter Center calls for the protection of Israeli and Palestinian civilians amid escalating violence in Israel and Gaza.
Oct. 2: The Carter Center deploys an election expert mission to Liberia.
Oct. 1: The Carter Center celebrates President Carter’s 99th birthday with a digital mosaic.
Sept. 28: The Carter Center adds 12 more cities to its global Inform Women, Transform Lives campaign.
Sept. 25: The Carter Center launches a mission to observe general elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Sept. 7: The Carter Center joins 12 other presidential organizations to renew their commitment to the fundamental principles of democracy.
Aug. 31: The Carter Center finds deep flaws in Zimbabwe’s elections and calls for the release of polling station level.
July 21: The Carter Center awards Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism to two journalists from the Republic of Ireland.
July 21: The Carter Center questions the credibility of election results in Sierra Leone.
July 12: The Carter Center awards Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism to nine U.S. journalists.
July 7: Accompanied by his wife, Kate, and sons, Henry and Thomas, Carter Center Board of Trustees Chair Jason Carter visits Zambia.
May 30: Through The Carter Center, the Carter family announces that former First Lady Rosalynn Carter has dementia. She continues to live happily at home with President Carter and to enjoy visits with loved ones.
May 18: The Carter Center hosts the 27th annual Rosalynn Carter Georgia Mental Health Forum.
May 16: The Carter Center, Helen Keller Intl, and SightSavers announce that Mali has eliminated trachoma as a public health problem.
May 4: The Consulate General of Ireland in Atlanta and The Carter Center co-host an event commemorating the 25th anniversary of Northern Ireland’s Good Friday Agreement.
April 18: The Carter Center calls for an end to factional violence in Sudan.
April 10: The Carter Center mourns the passing of former Board of Trustees Chair Oz Nelson.
March 27: With support from the Embassy of Ireland in Zambia, The Carter Center releases a new Election Obligations and Standards manual.
March 14: The Carter Center expresses gratitude to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland for her decision to vacate a 2019 land-swap agreement and protect ecologically rich land in Alaska.
Feb. 18: The Carter Center announces that former President Jimmy Carter has elected to forgo further medical treatment and enter home hospice care. He has the full support of his family and medical team.
Feb. 9: The Carter Center issues a statement applauding the release of 222 political prisoners in Nicaragua.
Feb. 8: The Carter Center calls for unhindered delivery of earthquake relief in Turkey and Syria.
Feb. 1: The Carter Center congratulates Nigeria for interrupting river blindness in four of the country’s 36 states, protecting 18.9 million people from the disease.
Jan. 24: The Carter Center announces that Guinea worm disease reached an all-time low of 13 human cases in 2022.
Jan. 8: The Carter Center condemned a mob assault on the offices of Brazil’s three constitutional branches.
Dec. 6: The Carter Center, which serves as the Independent Observer of the implementation of Mali’s 2015 peace agreement, releases a new report on the reconciliation, justice, and humanitarian issues.
Nov. 22: Carter Center issues a preliminary statement on Georgia’s 2022 risk-limiting audit process.
Nov. 8: Carter Center deploys nonpartisan election observers to Fulton County, Georgia, to observe the 2022 midterm election.
Nov: 4: The Carter Center’s electoral expert mission concludes its in-country assessment of Brazil’s presidential election and releases key findings.
Oct. 31: The Carter Center and the University of La Sabana in Bogotá, Colombia, name two recipients of the 2022-2023 Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism in Latin America.
Oct. 31: The Carter Center launches a mission to observe Tunisia’s Dec. 17 legislative elections.
Oct. 10: The Carter Center and Liberia Ministry of Health announce a new "mental health champions" initiative to bolster the country’s mental health care system and decrease stigma surrounding mental illnesses.
Oct. 2: The Carter Center sends a six-person team of international election experts to Brazil's general election.
Oct. 1: The Carter Center celebrates President Jimmy Carter’s 98 Years of making the world a better place.
Sept. 13: The Carter Center today officially launched the Candidate Principles for Trusted Elections initiative, a bipartisan effort to encourage candidates, political parties, and voters to uphold five core doctrines of democratic elections.
Sept. 13: As part of a partnership with The National media outlet in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), The Carter Center announces two new fellows for the Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism Program.
Aug. 9: The Center's Democracy Program sends an expert mission to Kenya’s Aug. 9 presidential election.
Aug. 3: The Center's Guinea Worm Eradication Program is chosen to receive the Fourth Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize from the government of Japan.
Aug. 2: The Carter Center deploys a four-person election expert mission to Nairobi to assess key issues regarding the use and perception of election technology in Kenya’s 2022 presidential election.
July 14: The Carter Center announces nine U.S. recipients of the 2022-2023 Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism.
June 27: The Carter Center Conflict Resolution Program releases a report on the current, unprecedented impasse in implementation of Mali’s 2015 peace agreement.
June 22: A Carter Center election expert mission concludes the Colombian presidential elections were successful but recommends several preliminary recommendations to improve the electoral system.
June 15: The Carter Center hosts its annual fundraiser, Carter Center Weekend, for the first time in person in two years at Colonial Williamsburg.
June 8: The Carter Center cosponsors the Safeguarding Democracy in the Americas: How to Strengthen the Inter-American Democratic Charter event.
June 2: In collaboration with Every Women Treaty, the Center’s Human Right Program hosts The Changing Climate on Violence Against Women event.
May 19: The Center sends a team of experts to assess the key aspects of the May 29 presidential election in Colombia.
May 18-19: The Carter Center hosts the 26th annual Rosalynn Carter Georgia Mental Health Forum as a free virtual event.
May 6: Jason Carter, chairman of The Carter Center Board of Trustees, and C.D Glin lead a delegation to Bamako, Mali, to discuss Mali’s 2015 peace agreement.
May 2: The Carter Center deploys an international electoral expert mission to Manila, Philippines, to assess important aspects of the May 9 general elections.
April 5: The Carter Center releases the final report from its international election expert mission to Palestine’s 2022 local council elections.
March 25: Mary S. Moore is appointed chair of the Carter Center’s Board of Councilors for 2022.
March 1: The Carter Center establishes I-Policy, India Policy, an initiative to educate U.S. policymakers on issues related to democracy and human rights in India.
Feb. 18: The Carter Center launches the Mental Health Parity Collaborative, a new multistate newsroom partnership to enhance mental health care coverage.
Jan. 26: The global Guinea Worm Eradication campaign led by The Carter Center reports just 15 human cases in 2021, the lowest annual case total ever recorded.
Jan. 20: The Carter Center announces 12 new cities in the second year of its Inform Women, Transform Lives campaign, a global effort to ensure that women can seek and receive beneficial information from their local governments.
Dec. 22: The Carter Center congratulates Ethiopia on successfully interrupting the transmission of river blindness in three former highly endemic districts.
Dec. 3: The Center releases a preliminary report from its international electoral expert mission on Venezuela's regional and municipal elections.
Oct. 27: The Carter Center announces that, at the request of the Venezuelan government, it will deploy a 6-person electoral expert mission to assess aspects of the country’s Nov. 21 elections.
Oct. 13: In celebration of World Sight Day, the Center's Trachoma Control Program holds a live event with Pfizer and the International Trachoma Initiative, discussing our longstanding partnership to help eliminate blinding trachoma around the world.
Oct. 6: The Carter Center publishes “The Big Lie and Big Tech,” a new report that details the role played by ‘repeat offenders’ - media known to repeatedly publish false and misleading information - in spreading election fraud narratives in online echo chambers during the 2020 election.
Sept. 14: In partnership with the Liberia Election Observation Network (LEON), The Carter Center launches a new, three-year project to advance democratic governance in Liberia.
Aug. 5: The Carter Center publishes “Sudan’s Youth and the Transition: Priorities, Perception, and Attitudes,” a report that presents the experiences, expectations, and hopes of Sudanese youth regarding the country’s transition from Omar al-Bashir’s regime to democracy.
July 26: The Carter Center deploys the first two members of its international electoral expert mission to Lusaka to assess the process surrounding Zambia’s Aug. 12 general elections.
July 15: The Carter Center announces nine U.S. recipients of the 2021-2022 Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism. The Center is awarding one more fellowship than in previous years due to the heightened need for solid mental health reporting during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond. Later, 2021-22 recipients are announced from the UAE and Latin America.
June 26: The Center’s annual fundraiser is virtual for the second year in a row—giving supporters around the globe the opportunity to tune in to help celebrate the legacy of President and Mrs. Carter.
June 17: The Carter Center’s Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism (RCJF) announces the appointment of four new U.S. Advisory Board members.
June 14: The Carter Center releases the final report from its electoral expert team on Bolivia’s Oct. 18, 2020, general elections.
May 24: Former U.S. First Lady Rosalynn Carter is recognized today by the World Health Organization (WHO) for 50 years of leadership to help improve access to health care for all people with mental health and substance use issues.
May 20: The Carter Center hosts the first virtual Rosalynn Carter Georgia Mental Health Forum to address pressing mental health issues relevant to Georgia and the country.
April 7: The Carter Center and Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy launch "The Carter-Baker Commission: 16 Years Later," a series of five virtual events focused on key issues affecting U.S. elections and potential reforms.
April 1: The Carter Center issues its final report on Georgia’s risk-limiting audit of the November 2020 presidential race, commending the process and saying that it should serve as the basis for increased confidence in the state’s electoral system.
March 23: The Carter Center and partner Georgia Parity Collaborative convene a bipartisan Town Hall calling for urgent action to improve mental health care access in Georgia.
March 8: The Carter Center launches the Inform Women, Transform Lives campaign, a groundbreaking global effort to help ensure that women can seek and receive information from their governments.
March 6: The Carter Center and the Global Institute for Disease Elimination (GLIDE) announce an exciting new partnership to support the Carter Center’s innovative disease elimination efforts in the Americas.
March 3: The Carter Center and the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA) announce the continuation of the International Election Observation Mission (IEOM) in Côte d'Ivoire and the deployment of 24 short-term international electoral observers to observe the country's March 6, 2021, legislative elections.
Jan. 30: The Carter Center marks the second annual World NTD Day by joining with partners around the globe to light up buildings and momuments from the Tokyo Tower to the Rome Colosseum to the Pyramids in Egypt.
Jan. 26: The Center-led international Guinea worm eradication campaign announces that a provisional total of 27 cases of Guinea worm disease were reported in 2020, a 50% decrease compared to the year before. When The Carter Center assumed leadership of the program in 1986, about 3.5 million human cases occurred annually in 21 countries in Africa and Asia.
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