She fights the Taliban for her rights!
Picture shows a battered woman peering through a broken window. The words below say in Pashto, the Afghan language: "Why in the 21st century are women here found only in the home and the cemetery?"
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The poster is on the dirt-smeared wall of the Department of Women's Affairs in southern Kandahar. It's here that Roona Tarin, the women's affairs director general, is training other women to be officials in Thursday's presidential election.
Wrapped in a black shawl, her figure hidden behind a loose black robe, Tarin says dozens of women were trained. But they won't be travelling outside Kandahar, and will be deployed at "women-only polling stations."
Image: Afghan women voters line up to cast their ballots at a mosque made into a polling station in Kabul on August 20, 2009.
Text & Images: AP
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