Carter’s life reflected a deep commitment to equality, justice, peace, and human rights. His vision of fair global relations remains vital today.

Former President Jimmy Carter, best known as a champion of international human rights both during and after his tenure as the 39th president, has died at 100.

Former President Jimmy Carter will lie in repose at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia, until Tuesday morning. CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook and CBS News contributor and presidential historian Douglas Brinkley reflect on the 39th president's work with human rights and health equity.

After his defeat for reelection, Jimmy Carter built the Carter Presidential Library and nonprofit Carter Center.

With a focus on human rights, US policy toward Latin America under Jimmy Carter briefly tempered a long tradition of interventionism in a key sphere of American influence, analysts say.

Human Rights Watch mourns the loss of Jimmy Carter, who made trailblazing contributions to the human rights movement during his US presidency and long afterward.

Former President Jimmy Carter has a complex legacy from his time in the White House, but what he did after he left Washington D.C. might just be his most important work of all.

The First Baptist Church of the City of Washington, D.C., is holding a memorial service for the former president Sunday evening.

Jimmy Carter's grandson, Jason Carter, shares more about the private life of the former president on 'Your World.'

Funeral events across the country will honor Jimmy Carter's life and career in public service, from his boyhood farm in rural Georgia to Washington and back.

P resident Jimmy Carter was a prescient president. Our first great champion of human rights in the White House, President Carter under