BOSTON (AP) - Peter Bell, a lifelong humanitarian and human rights advocate who served as president of the international relief organization CARE, has died.
His family says he died April 4 at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston after a five-month battle with cancer. He was 73.
While at CARE from 1995 until 2006, Bell helped transform the organization by placing human dignity and human rights at the center of its work to alleviate poverty. He emphasized the need to go beyond treating the symptoms of poverty to addressing underlying causes.
After CARE, he continued writing and speaking on issues of poverty reduction, human rights and peacemaking.
He also became a senior research fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
The Gloucester native is survived by his wife and two children.
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