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An Afghan woman is weeping under her burka, as she can't stand the hard refugee life conditions any more. Out of the 1 200 000 Afghan refugees in Pakistan, 170 000 are living under tents in poor conditions at the Shamshatoo camp in Pakistan, 40 kms south of Peshawar. February 2001

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Afghan refugees in Quetta Pakistan. September 2001

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A 12 year old Afghan refugee holds her sister, a 3 month baby, in the four-square-meter mud house they seeked refuge. She arrived in Quetta from Afghanstan with her family earlier in the week. The United Nations warned of a potential humanitarian disaster as tens of thousands of Afghans are expected to seek refuge in Pakistan, in anticipation of U.S. retaliatory strikes against Kabul's Taliban rulers. September 2001

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Afghan woman and her family sitting in the back of a car are being stoped at a checkpoint linking the border town of Chaman to Quetta, Pakistan. Thousands Afghans have crossed into Pakistan in Chaman border crossing, fearing American retaliation following September 11th.2001 terrorist attacks in the U.S. October 2001

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Afghan women and children crosses the front line as they flee Kunduz, still under Taliban control, to seak refuge by the Northen Alliance.November 23,2001

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Afghan family walk across the front line as they flee Kunduz, still under Taliban control, to seek refuge by the Northen Alliance. November 23, 2001

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Afghan women walks across the front line as she flees Kunduz, still under Taliban control, to seek refuge by the Northen Alliance. November 23, 2001

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Heading to a wedding party in Kabul, women of all ages get in a car, displaying different fashion styles: At left, a burka coverings dark blue pants follows a fancy dress worn by a 30 year old. No burka and even more style for the young adult at right, and a pink lace dress on a five-year-old girl. July 2002

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A young women dances in a room full of women during a wedding party. Weddings in Afghanistan are little business and often reveal a true face of a society that went through 25 years of war: miserable, unhealthy and mentally weak. June 2002

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Women gather during a wedding party. Weddings in Afghanistan are little business and often reveal a thrue face of a society that went through 25 years of war: miserable, unhealthy and mentally weak. June 2002

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Women gather during a wedding party. Weddings in Afghanistan are little business and often reveal a thrue face of a society that went through 25 years of war: miserable, unhealthy and mentally weak. June 2002

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Surounded by girl friends and relatives, the bride looks at herself in a mirror during her wedding party. June 2002

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Drama at a wedding party down miserable South West Kabul suburbs. The bride's mother had an heart attack when she discovered that the groom didn't buy the neckless he had promised for her daughter's wedding. A men doctor has arrived to give her an injection as she lays in a room packed with women relatives, all guests to her daughter's wedding. June 2002

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Detained Women hide their face in a cell of the Walaayat Women Jail in Kabul. 26 women are detained in basic conditions, waiting for a trial or even only an eventual agreement reached in between the detained and their family. Mainly accused of adulterous and prostitution, the women may have more hope for their future since the Taliban are no longer ruling the country . The new government has created a Women Ministry, to look after the Afghan women rights. July 2002

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Women in Bamiyan - July 2002

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Portrait of a woman in Bamiyan - July 2002

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Women in Kabul - June 2002

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Afghan women walks free down town Kabul with out wearing the traditional burka. July 2002

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Herat, Afghanistan, Women praying at Herat Great Mosque. October 2004.

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Women's day in Mazar-e-Sharif's Hazrat Ali shrine. Mosques are a place of relaxation and meeting for women who, once a week, go there with their children. September 2004

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Women's day in Mazar-e-Sharif's Hazrat Ali shrine. A woman puts her burka back on as she leaves. September 2004.

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Women's day in Mazar-e-Sharif's Hazrat Ali shrine. September 2004.

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Herat Hospital in the burned department, Shaima, 25, agonizes. She set herself on fire twenty days ago in a gesture of despair and revolt against the mistreatment of her mother-in-law. Her face is covered with a veil to protect her from flying insects. Suffering of deep burns and a beginnng of septicemia, she will not survive. October 2004

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Herat Hospital in the burned department, Shaima, 25, agonizes. She set herself on fire twenty days ago in a gesture of despair and revolt against the mistreatment of her mother-in-law. Suffering of deep burns and a beginning of septicemia, she will not survive. Her mother is helping her to get food. October 2004

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Shafiqa, in pain, is waiting for the plane to Kabul, in the women section of Mazar-e-Sharif's airport. Shafiqa, 60, mother of 15 children, lives in Mazar. She suffers of intense stomach pains but none of Mazar-e-Sharif's doctors seem to be able to treat her. Therefore, she is going to Kabul's Hospital by plane, accompanied by one of her son, with the hope to get a better diagnose and recieve the proper treatment. September 2004.

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Shafiqa, in pain, gets off the plane in Kabul airport. Shafiqa, 60, mother of 15 children, lives in Mazar. She suffers of intense stomach pains but none of Mazar-e-Sharif's doctors seem to be able to treat her. Therefore, she is going to Kabul's Hospital by plane, accompanied by one of her son, with the hope to get a better diagnose and recieve the proper treatment. Here, Shafiqa, in pain, gets off the plane in Kabul airport. September 2004.

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Shafiqa at her arrival in Kabul, walks on the tarmak of Kabul Airport. Her son carries their only luggages. Shafiqa, 60, mother of 15 children, lives in Mazar. She suffers of intense stomach pains but none of Mazar-e-Sharif's doctors seem to be able to treat her. Therefore, she is going to Kabul's Hospital by plane, accompanied by one of her son, with the hope to get a better diagnose and a recieve the proper treatment. September 2004.

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Kabul mixt universiy - Septembre 2004

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Women in burqas buying second hand shoes in Kabul open air bazar. Septembre 2004.

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Mary Ayubi, 22, camera women for AINA press agency, is filming Massouda Jalal meeting in an elementary school in Ghazni. Septembre 2004

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Zamzana, 7, escorted her sister Housour, 24. As she was working for the local United Nation, going to the villages around Jalalabad to deliver election cards to women, a month before the first Democratic Afghan Presidential Elections ever. One morning, as they were traveling with some 14 women workers to deliver the cards, a bomb blast in their minibus. The attack was claimed by Taliban, three of them died, Housour died but the little Zamzana survived. Her left leg had to be amputated, she lost three fingers of her left hand. September 2004

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Shakiba, 17, was working for the local United Nation, going to the villages around Jalalabad to deliver election cards to women, a month before the first Democratic Afghan Presidential Elections ever. One morning, as 14 women workers were going to deliver the cards, a bomb blast in the minibus in which she were traveling. The attack was claimed by Taliban, three of them died, Shakiba survived with bad injuries all over her body. September 2004

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Every day, 40 women give birth in the Delivery room at Jalalabad Maternity Women Hospital. September 2004

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Khan's family at home in Jalalabad. September 2004

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Massouda Jalal, 41, first and only women candidate to the Afghan presidential elections. Kabul, Afghanistan. September 2004

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For the first time in Afghanistan since more than a decade, women attend a Presidential Election rally. Here in Guzjan, Shebergan province, 130 kilometers west from Mazar-e-Sharif, in General Dostum Northen kingdom, women attend to War Lord Rachid Dostum's first rally to support him as he campaigns for the Afghan Presidential Elections. September 2004

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Herat, Afghanistan, Presidential Election day. For the first time since 20 years Afghan women are voting to elect the Afghan President. October 2004

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Herat, Afghanistan, Presidential Election day. For the first time since 20 years Afghan women are voting to elect the Afghan President. October 2004

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Herat, Afghanistan, Presidential Election day. For the first time since 20 years Afghan women are voting to elect the Afghan President. A voting ballot hangs on a school board for information. October 2004.

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Herat, Afghanistan, Presidential Election day. For the first time since 20 years Afghan women are voting to elect the Afghan President. October 2004

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Herat, Afghanistan, Presidential Election day. For the first time since 20 years Afghan women are voting to elect the Afghan President. October 2004

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The humanitarian WASSA shelter in Herat hosts 20 single women who did escape their home because of domestic violence. October 2004

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The humanitarian WASSA shelter in Herat hosts 20 single women who did escape their home because of domestic violence. Mariam, 25, was abandoned by her husband in Iran. One of her three children has disappeared in Iran. October 2004.

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The humanitarian WASSA shelter in Herat hosts 20 single women who did escape their home because of domestic violence. October 2004

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The humanitarian WASSA shelter in Herat hosts 20 single women who did escape their home because of domestic violence. This young girl cries with anguish at the thought of returning to her family. October 2004

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Women getting ready for wedding party in Kabul beauty parlor. September 2005

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Wedding in Kabul - One of the bride's cousin. September 2005