<?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 2008]]></description><item><title><![CDATA[31 December 2008: Re-subscribe to Carter Center RSS feeds]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/documents/current_rss.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Carter Center is reorganizing its RSS feeds. Please re-subscribe to your favorite RSS feeds. New URLs are listed here.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[19 December 2008: Privatizing Mental Health Hospitals: Two Views: Don't Rush to Hand Off Care of Patients in Need]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/editorials_speeches/privatizing_mental_health_hospitals.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[This op-ed by Thomas Bornemann was published in the Dec. 19, 2008 edition of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Georgia continues to experience the effects of a mental health system that is tragically broken. Georgia Department of Human Resources' (DHR) has responded with some new proposals, one of which is privatizing and downsizing state mental hospitals.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[10 December 2008: Obama's Human Rights Opportunity]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/editorials_speeches/obamas_human_rights_opportunity.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[This op-ed by Jimmy Carter was published in the Dec. 10, 2008 edition of the Washington Post. The advancement of human rights around the world was a cornerstone of foreign policy and U.S. leadership for decades, until the attacks on our country on Sept. 11, 2001.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[2 December 2008: Respond to Zimbabwe Crisis ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/editorials_speeches/jc_zimbabwe_crisis.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[This op-ed was published in the Dec. 2, 2008 edition of the Atlanta Journal Constitution. ]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[19 September 2008: Mental Health Legislation We Need]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/editorials_speeches/mental_health_legislation.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[This op-ed was originally published in the Washington Post. The Sept. 8 news story "Kennedy Plans a January Return," regarding Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), mentioned an effort to pass legislation granting parity in insurance coverage for those suffering from mental illnesses.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[11 September 2008: Op-Ed by Jimmy Carter: India Nuclear Deal Puts World at Risk]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/editorials_speeches/jc_india_nuclear_deal.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing since 1974 of India's nuclear ambitions, other American presidents and I have maintained a consistent global policy: no sales of nuclear technology or uncontrolled fuel to any country that refuses to sign the 1970 Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT. To imbed this concept as official national policy, I worked closely with bipartisan leaders in the U.S. Congress to pass the Non-Proliferation Act of 1978.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[8 May 2008: A Human Rights Crime in Gaza]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/editorials_speeches/innocents_050808.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[This column by Jimmy Carter was distributed for publication by Project Syndicate. The world is witnessing a terrible human rights crime in Gaza, where a million and a half human beings are being imprisoned with almost no access to the outside world by sea, air or land. An entire population is being brutally punished.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[28 April 2008: Pariah Diplomacy]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/editorials_speeches/carter_nytimes_042808.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[Editorial by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, published in the April 28, 2008, edition of The New York Times. A counterproductive Washington policy in recent years has been to boycott and punish political factions or governments that refuse to accept United States mandates. This policy makes difficult the possibility that such leaders might moderate their policies.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[31 March 2008: A Village Woman's Legacy (PDF)]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/resources/pdfs/news/health_publications/guinea_worm/time_village_womans_legacy_mar31_08.pdf]]></link><description><![CDATA[This article was published in the Mar. 31, 2008 edition of TIME magazine. An encounter with the victim of an old scourge gave a former President a new worldview&#151;and a mission.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[27 March 2008: Remarks by Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter: 2008 Skoll World Forum]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/editorials_speeches/world_forum_speech.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[Videotaped remarks delivered by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter during the Skoll Awards Ceremony, held during the 2008 Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Oxford's Sa&#239;d  Business School.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[3 February 2008: A Clearer Picture on Voter ID]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/editorials_speeches/voter_id.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[This Jimmy Carter and James Baker III op-ed was published in the Feb. 3, 2008, edition of The New York Times. ]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[30 January 2008: "Unity, After 160 Years" -- Address by Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter to the New Baptist Covenant Meeting, Atlanta, Ga.]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/editorials_speeches/baptist_013008.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good evening;  I come representing Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia, and speak to you tonight as a Sunday School teacher, a deacon - and it seems my preeminent credential is the husband of the world's most famous deacon.]]></description></item></channel></rss>