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Carter joins nprs rachel martin to talk about the state of human trafficking and whether religion can be a conduit for lasting change around gender. From the first day of his presidency, jimmy carter set out to fundamentally alter the direction of american foreign policy. Women, religion, violence, and power is a heartfelt appeal to fight discrimination and abuse of women and girls on a global scale. Jun 25, 2010 in other words, if the disgruntled cia old boys and the determined likudniks did participate in an october surprise scheme to unseat jimmy carter, they surely got much of what they were after. In 1982, carter founded the carter center, a nongovernmental and nonprofit organization with the purpose of advancing human rights and alleviating human suffering, including helping improve the quality of life for people in more than 80 countries.
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