Vienna Convention Endorsement - the right to consular assistance

Vienna Convention Endorsement

Every year, a significant number of United States citizens traveling or living overseas find themselves ensnared in the criminal justice system of a foreign government. Consular assistance provides a vital service to these Americans, maintaining a desperately needed link to the outside world, and helping them navigate and understand an unfamiliar, and perhaps hostile, legal system. Article...

FAWCO salutes women voters (2006)

'Women's Equality Day' Commemorates the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution

Collective memory pinpoints the history of women's suffrage to Quaker teacher Susan B. Anthony who in 1837 was the first to stand up for equal pay for women teachers. Discouraged that the post-Civil War campaign for voting rights for Black-Americans did not extend to women, Anthony founded the...

Creation of Americans Abroad Caucus - February 2007

On February 22, 2007, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC) sent a letter to their colleagues in the House of Representatives inviting them to join the “Americans Abroad Caucus, dedicated to the estimated 4 to 6 million American citizens living and working overseas.”

According to Representatives Maloney and Wilson “although they live overseas, many of these Americans...