Former president jimmy carter,ing advocate for the treatment of women and girls. Ive seen tangible examples of how horribly women and girls are treated. Gender violence, he brings an extremely important voice to the conversation. Studying and memorizing the gettysburg address. Gluten are free. Why do you enjoy it . It makes you fat. We begin with a call for action from former president jimmy carter. , the deprivation and abuse of women and girls. False interpretation of religious text almost exclusive by powerful male leaders, to proclaim the lower status of women and girls. Growing tolerance of violence and warfare following the example set by the u. S. Has also played a role as violence has encouraged more violence. For that im honored to welcome the 39th president of the United States and the 2002 noble peace prize winner. Good to have you with us. Delighted. You have redefined what its like to be a former president of the United States. You are the only one who won the Nobel Peace Prize after leaving the white house. You have traveled all over the world, doing humanitarian efforts from the Carter Center to habitat for humanity. You have written two does books. That . As a matter of fact, this is my 28th book. I apologize the Carter Center is active in 79 different countries. Since ive left the white house, thats what we have done, gotten to know people in all nations, in third world countries where women and girls are especially abused. People who can do something about it, i have 23 recommendations in the book that can solve some of these problems, particularly in the United States, a lot of the problems that occur in the poorest countries, the back countries of the world we might call them, also ex at extant in the United States. For instance, slavery, slavery is much greater than it was in the 19th century when black people were brought out of africa in europe and the United States. There is 32 billion of Human Trafficking in the world every year and the taint reported leas year owners t and the state department reported that 80 of those sold into slavery are imirls for sex purposes. And thousands of them into the United States. 100,000 in the United States. Not all of them were sold across borders. But the number one place in america for this human slavery traffic is in atlanta. Because we have the largest airport on earth. And also, because a lot of our passengers on the airplanes come from a third world, from the southern part of the world where the girls can be bought cheaper. So you can buy a pimp or brothel owner can buy a girl for about a thousand dollars if she comes from africa or southern asia or latin america. We got all sort of social media responses, a viewer named heather she asked, how can we fight trafficking in the u. S . Well, i think the United States has to take the basis. There is a im talking about girls and women because as i say girls comprise 80 of the people sold into slavery. There is an International Convention of the United States called a convention on the end of discrimination against women. Cedaw. And the United States has refused to ratify this treaty, this convention that exists because we dont want to have anything to do with the United Nations and the very conservative senate. There is another one called the law against violence against women and the International Version ever that requires that every country tabulate not only their own crimes but decrease the criminality of action against women and girls al and l prisoners or slaves recordless whether they are women. The worst places for sexual abuse in america are two of our greatest institutions, one is universities. Where were seeing an epidemic of Sexual Assault. One out of four girls enrolled in american universities are raped or have sexual abuse while shes in college. Only a fourth are reported, 1 6 as much in the civilian environment. And the other is the military. The military. You were a navy officer. What do you think a Commanding Officer doesnt want to admit in his chain of command in his company in his battalion that a lot of sexual abuse takes place. So he discourages the women from reporting it when they are taughted. Same thing happens to the College President s, to Emery University or hard o harvard orf chicago or so forth. Prosecution of Sexual Assault out of the chain of command im really disappointed. They made some slight improvements about how much you can harass a woman who is raped in court. There was a very horrible case of a midshipman in the Naval Academy where i attended, she was interrogated by the Football Players defender, lawyer, 21 hours in three days and she asked to be left off, that off for the next day, because she was tired. And the judge ruled against her and made her testify on saturday as well. And they asked her horrendous questions, like how many times have you kissed a boy, what kind of underwear were you wearing, have you ever had sex relations, before you came to the Naval Academy, how wide do you open your mouth when you give oral sex to a boy . Dont make a charge officially against your rapist that says. This is a horrible abuse across the world and you say its the biggest worldwide challenge we face. Its unaddressed. Its unaddressed. In a world where we are facing nuclear proliferation, why do you think that is the biggest challenge . Lets look at the number of people that die because of this. We know about 35 Million People were killed in the Second World War, right . And during the war between the states or the Second World War 600,000 people were killed. At this moment there are 160 Million Girls who are missing because they have been killed by their parents. Either at birth, they strangled the baby because its a girl and they need to have boys, or because they now have sonograms and they can detect the sex of a fetus when its still an embryo and they can selectively abort that child because its female. Almost a generation of girls are missing from the earth because they have been killed. The chapter of the book called genocide of girls. Possibly the most precise one because you address that very issue. For instance china and india limit the size of families. If the family doesnt have social security, they want to have boys. If they can only have a maximum of one or two children, they want to make sure they have boys. A movie coming out, its a girl, a very famous movie, a woman from yintd said with india said without shame that she strangled eight children when they were infants because they were girls. United states needs to take leadership role in stopping this mandatory prostitution and take action to correct these problems. You are deeply religious but you are critical in the role of religion to women and girls. Im a christian. There is nothing in the acts of jesus christ that women. As a matter of fact, jesus was a champion of womens rights and made women of a higher status than ever before him. The beebl, the old test the bible, the old testament, new testament, the writings of paul, whether you want woman inferior. It is men interpreting it. It is. As paul pointed out there were 25 leaders that he mentioned dismissal i think in 16th chapter of acts and about half those are women at very high levels. Nowadays, of course in the Catholic Church a woman cannot be a priest or a de deacon. And in the southern of the baptist convention, a woman cant teach boys in the classroom. You and mrs. Carter left the Southern Baptist convention because of their position on women. You have been hopeful of pope francis. I visited with Pope John Paul ii, an almost total inflexibility there, but i wrote pope francis a letter describing some of the issues in the book and helped him to prevent or minimize the position of women and girls. I didnt ask him to change the churchs position on women of course, but he wrote me a very nice letter back, the position of women in the church needed to be strengthened and would be. I know you said that president obama has not. My other predecessors, im not criticizing president obama because you know ive been out of office for 35 years. And its natural for a president to consult other president s if he wants to who have been more recently in the white house. So i think that george w. Bush and bill clinton have been there just before him and i dont think its reasonable to expect president obama to go back 35 years and recess recollect an old democrat who was there. What about the criticism that you are too independent, that you dont take guidance very well and dont play well with official washington . Im always protecting the integrity of the president. I havent been anywhere in the world that i didnt get at least tacit approval of the president before i went. A few president s have asked me not to go, president obama did, president clinton, and president george h. Wmplet bus w. Bush asked me not ogo because there were places that were dangerous. The Carter Center had a policy of going into areas that, we dont have redescraints or restrictions of whom we meet. We can meet with leaders with whom the u. S. Government has no relationships and the u. S. Government will call on me as i go into north korea, cuba, palestinian factions, nepal and meet with a maoist, they asked me to ask questions and to bring back some answers. A final question for you. You have been critical of edward snowden, you believe that he broke the law with some of the revelations he made. But at the same time you think it was important that some of this be brought to light. I do. You said youre concerned that your emails are being looked at by the nsa, and when you have sensitive topics, you do handwritten letters. The head of the nsa has said they are not looking at your emails. Thats a relief to know. I remember when the head of nsa one of them said that they didnt monitor american they didnt record american telephone calls. And it turned out later that he didnt tell the congress truth. But you know i havent really worried about it. I dont have anything to conceal but there are some times when i dont want some of my private messages to be read. Theres no doubt nsa has recorded every telephone call and every email message sent in the United States. They dont actually read the text but they know which message has occurred. They know which transmission has taken place and if they want to later on they can get permission from a very quiescent fisa court. I was concerned after watergate and that sort of thing that intelligence sometimes abused people. I know that the fbi did abuse Martin Luther king jr. And so forth. So we have a law passed called the fisa law in 1978 that absolutely prevented any American Intelligence Agency from spying on even one american communication unless they got a court order ahead of time certifying that it was a threat to american security. And that prevailed until after 9 11. And then that law was liberalized. And i think the law was changed quite a lot. And in my opinion when the congress changed it, the Intelligence Committee knew what was in the bill but the rest of the members of coming didnt have access to those secrets. So the laws were passed and i think fsa and others have exceeded the grant of freedom that the Congress Gave them and exceeded their intrusion into the private affairs of americans, yes. The book is a call to action, women, religion, violence and power. President carter, its an honor to have you with us. Best of luck on your book and on your humanitarian efforts. And i hope you visit us on the 29th book. Al Jazeera America presents im not a genius, but. I feel like that kid that doesnt need to go to practice. 15 stories one incredible journey edge of eighteen coming september only on al Jazeera America i voted for culture. With a k. how are you . I voted for plausible deniability. I didnt kill her, david. And i voted for decisive military action. Xfinity presents the peoples hotlist where you choose this summers top 100 shows and movies. And all you have to do is watch with xfinity on demand. Now through july 23rd. 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We as georgians believe in the right of the people to defend themselves and therefore we believe in the second amendment. And today i will put into law a gun bill that heralds selfdefense, personal liberties and public safety. The Little Wonder then that georgia congressman Jack Kingston has chained his tune, now that hes campaigning for the senate. He now calls for banning the centers for Disease Control, will not be included in the appropriations bill. For more were joined by congresswoman caroline maloney. And with us from atlanta is dr. Mark rosenburg, president and director of the fasks for task force for human health, he led the gun Violent Research no. It was defunded in the 1990s. After newtown, about gun violence now hes completely changed his tune and as i just said, hes talking about the president wanting gun grabbing initiatives. What do you say to him . Whats so threatening about doing research . We research everything, as researchers can point out. Alone are we with Gun Safety Research in that they are initiatives to prohibit. I would say no area should be so wall off that we cant research and find cures and solutions. I thought after sandy hook that there would be a lot of progun safety, that the background checks would pass. But research, we need it in order to build a case. And the amount of gun violence in our world is staggering. 33,000 people a year die from gun violence. 32,000 people a year, 91,000 children under the able of 12 were killed by gun violence. Why not . Way to see if background checks work if safety locks work. Policy isnt set without research to back it up. You need data to progress, and without the data you are stopping the progress. We have a bill in to the center for Disease Control for gun research. Senator, i know youre a gun advocate, you like the shoot. Now gun violence is seen as a Public Health issue because as the congresswoman said, tens of thousands of people are killed every year by gun violence and its costing us tens of billions in medical cost. What can research for gun violence help . One, you mentioned 30,000 people a year are killed by guns. So we want to prevent some of those deaths. Especially suicides and many, many of those deaths that are very preefntable. But we have preventible. We have another problem at the same time. Our gun rights are threatened. The rights of legitimate gun owners are under threat. What we have got odo is find a way to reduce both firearm injuries and deaths and protect the rights of legitimate gun owners. If we probably only wanted to do one of those things, you wouldnt need research. Dont allow any discussion let alone any discussion about firemafirearm injuries and deat. If all you wanted to do was prevent firearm injuries and deaths then take guns away from civilians. The problem is we want to solve both problems at the same time, and there are ways to do it. But if you want to figure out what works to achieve both of these goals at the same time, you need to do research to find out the answer. And rye anonymity, we dont know right now, we dont know what works. We dont know that letting more people carry concealed weapons in public will save lives and security, we dont know if that will protect legitimate gun owners. Were asking politicians to sign bills when they dont know what the impact of those bills would be. Its not fair of us to ask them to pass on bills if we dont give them evidence on what works and what doesnt. Were flying blind in an area that affects health and safety. Congresswoman, youve mentioned a whole bunch of different are initiatives, including making gun ceag legal, to limit large capacity magazines, renew the assault weapons ban and require insurance for gug owners. Isnt it a forgone conclusion that in an Election Year none of that will move forward . Well you always try. I think his point you can do both is true. You can find common ground. Theres no reason you cant Research Ways to prevent gun deaths and absolutely ensure that law abiding rightf