Archive photo of the day
Polling center in Afghanistan, 2018
Stars and Stripes
August 18, 2023
(Phillip Walter Wellman)
Kandahar, Afghanistan, Oct. 27, 2018: Women wait in line to vote at a polling center. A March 2023 United Nations report on women’s rights since the Taliban takeover noted that “the situation has significantly regressed to the pre-2002 period, and women are denied their fundamental rights and freedoms.”