Former President Jimmy Carter will sit down for a conversation Monday evening with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders that will be live streamed on the Carter Center's Facebook page (www.facebook.com/cartercenter). 

Focusing on “important human rights issues,” the sure-to-be lively exchange is scheduled to start at 6:20 p.m. A highlight of Day One of the Carter Center’s annual Human Rights Defenders Forum, it is not open to the public.

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More than 70 activists, peacemakers, and community leaders from 31 countries will convene May 8 - 9 “to discuss strategies for protecting human rights in the wake of rising authoritarianism.”

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Channel 2's Carl Willis share more of what the former President had to say about the upcoming election.

For additional information on the forum and other session webcasts, visit www.cartercenter.org.

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