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Photos of New Zealand

On 19 September 1893, New Zealand became the first country to grant women’s suffrage. This memorial in Christchurch (South Island) is a wall with a central panel showing a life-size bronze relief sculpture of Kate Sheppard and five other women's suffrage leaders.

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