Right of foreigners to vote of other supranational groupings of countries. The 1992 Maastricht Treaty imposed reciprocity inside the European Union concerning voting rights in local elections; this already existed for the European elections. In several European states, the public debate on the right of foreigners to vote was therefore renewed, as some foreign residents had the right to vote (European foreign residents) while others, non-Europeans, did not. As a result of this debate, Luxembourg, Lithuania, Slovenia and Belgium extended the right to vote, in different manners, to all foreign residents (which was already the case in Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Netherlands). The European Parliament,
Associated Country Women of the World in rural communities, ACWW aims to improve the standard of living for all women and their families in the following areas: ACWW also advocates for rural women and their families through its links with the UN. In addition to its special consultative status with UNESCO, ACWW is a member of the following UN groups: ACWW is a founding organization of the Alliance for Health Promotion and a member of the NGO Group on the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Associated Country Women of the World The Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW) is the largest international organization