Jimmy Carter’s Post-Presidential Human Rights Legacy

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Former US President Jimmy Carter. © 2014 LBJ Library and Museum The late US President Jimmy Carter’s human rights legacy includes his role long after leaving office in 1981. His partnership with Human Rights Watch and many other nongovernmental organizations helped achieve important advances in international law, including treaties to hold war criminals to account, to prohibit landmines and cluster munitions, and to ban the use of children as soldiers. Carter worked alongside Human Rights Watch and others as an early supporter of the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty…

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