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.
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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