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Lynsey Addario

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An Afghan refugee in Peshawar, Pakistan May 2000.

Afghan women beg on the streets in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 2000.

An Afghan woman prepares to leave her home in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 2000.

A secret girls school under the Taliban in Logar province, Afghanistan May 2000. Under the Taliban, education for girls and women was prohibited.

Afghan women shield their faces for a photograph in the Rabia Balkhi Women's Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan May 2000.

A woman in labor at the Rabia Balkhi Women's Hospital in Kabul, 2000. Under the Taliban, most women were prohibited from working, but a select number of women doctors were able to work.

Afghans hold a secret wedding in Herat in March of 2001, when the Taliban's version of Islamic law made it illegal for men and women to dance together. The U.S.-led invasion later that year would drive the Taliban underground and give Afghans greate

A young Afghan bride and groom arrive at the bridal shower to celebrate with the female half of their wedding party, in defiance of the prohibitions of the Taliban in Herat, Afghanistan, March 24, 2001.

It's very delicate to photograph an Afghan wedding. The women are unveiled and often wear revealing dresses and heavy makeup. They are reluctant to share these images with the outside world. At this Kabul wedding the bride is Fershta, 18. She wears

Many girls in Afghanistan get no education at all. Even those who do enroll in a school typically study for just four years. So these members of Kabul University's class of 2010 are definitely in the minority. Wearing hijab under their mortarboards

Afghan Hazara students attend the Marefat School on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, April 10, 2010. Until 2006, the school was co-ed, and in 2006, the ministry of education demanded that the school be segregated. the school has 2500 students, o

These young Afghan women are part of a team that will compete at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, where women's boxing will debut as an official sport. The athletes triumphed just by getting their families to sign on to the idea of their dau

In Afghanistan you seldom see an unaccompanied woman. Noor Nisa, about 18, was pregnant; her water had just broken. Her husband, whose first wife had died during childbirth, was determined to get Noor Nisa to the hospital in Faizabad, a four-hour dr

All village women are invited to come to health and hygiene classes taught by a traveling midwife wearing a white hijab and glasses in this photograph. She works for a mobile clinic sponsored by the United Nations Population Fund and the internation

A male Ethiopian surgeon (wearing a green cap, at center left) shows the female staff at Malalai Maternity Hospital in Kabul how to repair a fistulaÑan abnormal hole between the vagina and bladder or rectum that can lead to infection and incontinenc

On-air disc jockey Rokhsar Azamee, idolized by young Afghan girls, works a TV call-in show featuring song requests. Banned under the Taliban, television now has a huge audience, and Azamee's show is one of the reasons. Several popular programs curre

With face, hair, and arms in full view, actress Trena Amiri chauffeurs a friend around Kabul on a Friday. She blasts her favorite songs off a cassette and shimmies and sings along, tapping the steering wheel as she dances in the driver's seat. Even

Young women, many of them studying to become teachers, relax in the Women's Garden of a park intended for families outside the city of Bamian. Established by the province's female governor, Habiba Sarabi, the garden provides a place for Afghan women

Habiba Sarabi of Bamian Province, the only female governor in Afghanistan, takes her morning walk in the hills, security officer in tow. Bamian Province, famous for the giant Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban, is one of the most open-minded pr

Afghan Parliamentarian Fawzia Kufi meets with people from Badakshan province to listen to their problems and try to help out villagers.

Presidential Dr. Abdullah Abdullah is surrounded by supporters at a rally in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 3, 2009. The elders came to Dr. Abdullah to announce their support of his campaign for Presidency. As Afghans gear up to vote in presidential el

Afghan policewomen handle AMD-65 rifles at a dusty firing range outside Kabul. They are trained by carabinieri, Italian military police from the local NATO troops. Joining the police force is a bold decision for an Afghan woman. Insurgents often att

Lance Cpl. Elisabeth Reyes of the U.S. Marine Corps chats with Afghan women and their children at a clinic in Helmand Province, located in the south and considered one of the country's most dangerous areas. She is a member of the relatively new fema

Afghan widows and poor women throng the outside of the Khuj Shahib Abdullah Ansar Shrine in Herat as they ask for money and food donations from the people. Afghan police officers typically collect donations from Afghans and hand them out to the wome

In Herat the shrine to Shahzada Qasim, a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, is more than a thousand years old. One day of each week a section is partitioned so women can come to worship. Cordoned off to create a sanctuary for women, these prayer se

A female inmate at a Mazar-e Sharif prison has just been released, prompting Maida-Khal, 22, to cry out because she is still trapped in her cell. When Maida-Khal was 12, she was married to a man of about 70 who was paralyzed. "I was so young, I coul

Bibi Aisha was 19 when I met her in Kabul's Women for Afghan Women shelter in November 2009. Her husband beat her from the day she was married, at age 12. When he beat her so badly she thought she might die, she escaped to seek a neighbor's help. To

Hanife, 15, is offered juice from her mother in the burn center of the Herat Regional Hospital in Herat, Afghanistan, August 3, 2010. Hanife tried to commit suicide by self-immolation after being beaten by her mother-in-law about fifty days prior.