I have just returned from Vietnam traveling with the medical NGO, Mobility Outreach International. Their current mission in Vietnam is to treat patients with club foot/feet, many of which are children. In the past the organization was also involved in providing prosthetic devices for amputees. One of the visits we made on this trip was …
What an honor to have the inaugural exhibition of Our Sister’s Keeper take place at the Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta, Georgia. I felt proud and humble at the same time! I previewed the exhibit the day before the opening and was overwhelmed with emotion to see “my women” displayed so beautifully. …
In December, 2015, four months ago, The Carter Center was involved in convening the West Africa Human Rights Defenders Forum, entitled “Mobilizing Action for Women and Girls”. The forum was held in Accra, Ghana. In 2012 and 2014, I visited the Gambaga Witch Camp in Gambaga, Ghana. I discovered a camp in which over 200 …
Thank you for signing up for Our Sister’s Keeper blog. Your interest in the human rights issues of women is important to me. If you have any information on related issues that you would like to share with me I would welcome your input. The website www.oursisterskeeper.org has images of women I have met around …
Human rights for women and children must exist for everyone living on this planet to have a better life. Our interdependence demands this. This is why we must be “Our Sister’s Keeper”. I support the Carter Center project for human rights for women and children—The Forum on Women, and dedicate my work and this site …