<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!--If you see this error message then you do not support RSS v2.0.--><rss version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Carter Center]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carter Center Editorials 2007]]></description><item><title><![CDATA[10 December 2007: Subsidies' Harvest Of Misery:  Jimmy Carter Washington Post Op-Ed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/editorials_speeches/carter_agriculture_121007.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[Congress can still act decisively this year to right a wrong that is hurting both small American farmers and the poorest people on the planet. A long-overdue debate is taking place on reform of the 1933 farm bill, passed during the Great Depression to alleviate the suffering of America's family farmers.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[10 December 2007: Venezuela Reins in, Doesn't Reject, Hugo Ch&#225;vez]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/editorials_speeches/jmc_121007.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[This Jennifer McCoy op-ed was published in the Dec. 10, 2007, edition of Newsday. Voters in Venezuela have sent a clear message to their president: Slow down.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[24 November 2007: Compromise Proposal for Nepal]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/editorials_speeches/Carter_Nepal_proposal.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[After having met with as many political leaders and private citizens as possible, I find it obvious that serious obstacles remain to a successful resolution of the present debate that can lead to a Constituent Assembly and a national constitution.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[26 September 2007: Jimmy Carter Receives First Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/editorials_speeches/schweitzer_award.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[This lecture was delivered by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter during the awards ceremony at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn.  Sept. 26, 2007 marked the 50th anniversary of Albert Schweitzer's call for an end to nuclear weapons.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[12 September 2007: Jimmy Carter Op-Ed: Nuclear Steps Undermine Peace]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/editorials_speeches/nuclear091207.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[By abandoning many of the nuclear arms agreements negotiated in the last 50 years, the US has been sending mixed signals to North Korea, Iran and other states with the technical knowledge to create nuclear weapons.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[3 August 2007: Jimmy Carter &#151; America Is Robbing Developing Nations Of Health Workers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/editorials_speeches/jc_braindrain.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[The July 31 USA Today Forum article "U.S. savior: Foreign doctors" is very interesting but presents only one side of a tragic and selfish trend: the active recruitment of extremely scarce health workers from the poorer countries of the world. This is a crisis that The Carter Center faces every day in fighting malaria, lymphatic filariasis, Guinea worm, trachoma, river blindness, and schistosomiasis.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[10 July 2007: Rosalynn Carter's Testimony &#151; Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Education Equity ActHouse Education and Labor Committee, Subcommittee on Health]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/editorials_speeches/rosalynn_mhtestimony.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to speak to you regarding legislation that will profoundly impact the lives of so many Americans.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[21 June 2007: Peace with Justice in the Middle East]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/editorials_speeches/oxford_062107.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remarks by Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter Center at the Mansfield College, Oxford, "Hands Lecture" on June 21, 2007.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[19 June 2007: Human Rights Speech]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/editorials_speeches/ireland_061907.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remarks by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, delivered June 19, 2007, in Dublin, Ireland.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[12 April 2007: Mental Health System Needs Legislature's Boost]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/editorials_speeches/ajc_041207.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Hidden Shame, the continuing series in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is chronicling inhumane neglect, abuse and death in Georgia's state mental hospitals. Unfortunately, these very real problems in the state hospital system are just the tip of the iceberg.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[06 April 2007: A Viable Mideast Peace Plan]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/editorials_speeches/iht_040607.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[This letter, written by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, was published in the April 6, 2007, issue of the International Herald-Tribune.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[29 March 2007: Statement of Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter to the U.N. Human Rights Council]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/pr/humanrightscouncil_032907.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since 1993, my colleagues at the Carter Center and I have worked together with governments and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to improve the United Nations' system for protecting human rights throughout the world.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[23 January 2007: Remarks by Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter at Brandeis University]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/editorials_speeches/brandeis.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[The following is a transcript of remarks delivered by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter at Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., on Jan. 23, 2007. ]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[18 January 2007: A New Chance for Peace?]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/editorials_speeches/washington_post_011807.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[Washington Post editorial.  I am concerned that public discussion of my book "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid" has been diverted from the book's basic proposals: that peace talks be resumed after six years of delay and that the tragic persecution of Palestinians be ended.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[10 January 2007: Jimmy Carter: Let's Bridge the Rich-Poor Gap]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/editorials_speeches/engineering.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[From MSNBC.  Essay originally published in "Grand Challenges for Engineering," section, National Academy of Engineering Web site.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[3 January 2007: Remarks of Former President Jimmy Carter During Funeral Service for Gerald R. Ford]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/editorials_speeches/ford_eulogy.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[Transcript of President Carter's remarks, delivered at Grace Episcopal Church, Grand Rapids, Mich. ]]></description></item></channel></rss>