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Democratic and constitutional milestones

Rights, representation and institutions.

Eleanor Roosevelt holding an English-language declaration poster at Lake Success, New York, in November 1949.Freedom and rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Setting out a shared international statement of human rights.

Nelson Mandela in Washington, DC, in October 1994; a portrait from the election year, not a polling-day photograph.Constitutional milestone

South Africa's first democratic election

Opening national voting to citizens of all races after apartheid.

Detail of the Kate Sheppard National Memorial in Christchurch; a later commemoration of the suffrage campaign.Constitutional milestone

Women's suffrage in New Zealand

Enfranchising women in national parliamentary elections.

The decorated preamble to the Constitution of India.Constitutional milestone

The making of India's Constitution

Establishing the constitutional framework of an independent republic.

A 1998 Yes campaign poster for the Belfast Agreement, photographed in a 2010 exhibition at the Linen Hall Library.Constitutional milestone

The Belfast / Good Friday Agreement

Creating a negotiated framework for power-sharing and peace in Northern Ireland.

Louis Rigaud's later portrait of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, ruler of Haiti when the 1805 constitution was adopted.Constitutional milestone

Haiti's imperial constitution

A formerly enslaved society constitutionally prohibiting slavery while defining a new sovereign state.

The original Japanese constitution promulgated in 1946 and brought into force in 1947.Constitutional reform

Japan's postwar constitution

A new constitutional order based on popular sovereignty, rights and renunciation of war.

The official Government Gazette publication of South Africa's 1996 Constitution, opening page.Constitutional milestone

South Africa's Constitution

An enforceable rights framework replacing apartheid's legal order.

A group photograph of women elected to Finland's parliament in 1907; not every one of the nineteen elected members is shown.Democratic reform

Women's suffrage in Finland

Women gaining equal voting and candidacy rights and entering parliament.