Jimmy Carter’s crowning achievements came after having the most powerful job in the world The Georgian was a campaigner for human rights, democracy and public health – and a devoted husband.
And they were no small achievements: Carter was, by general consensus, a tireless campaigner for human rights, democracy and, perhaps most significantly, global public health.
His Carter Foundation, set up by the former president and his wife, Rosalynn, in 1982 – a year after he left the White House – has worked for nearly four decades to eradicate the painful and debilitating Guinea worm disease.
He argued passionately and eloquently, rolling though a litany of abuses women and girls around the world face: rape and violence in war, trafficking, infanticide and, in his own country, an epidemic of sexual assault at universities.
The abuse of women and girls was, he believed, the worst human rights violation of the time and he was determined to issue a global call to action on the subject.
