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By Lisa Anderson NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - After more than 50 years in the public arena, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has shown he can still command people's attention - with a column on why he quit his church over women's rights going viral six years after it was published. Carter, 90, a Nobel Peace laureate and longtime human rights champion, has campaigned to end violence and discrimination against women since leaving the White House in 1981, calling it "the human and civil rights struggle of our time". Ensnared in religious beliefs and traditional customs that often trump civil law, women's rights are under constant assault across the globe, Carter told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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