Iraqi Kurdish women train weight lifting at a centre in Iraq's Kurdish regional capital of Arbil on February 2, 2022. Women's sports have developed at a sluggish pace across much of conservative Iraq, which has struggled through decades of conflict. But the Kurdistan region was spared the brunt of the violence and destruction, and its infrastructure, facilities and government funding have paved the way for a boom in professional women's sports. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)

Hirunika Premachandra, a politician and a leader of Samagi Vanitha Balawegaya, a part of the main opposition party Samagi Jana Balawegaya, hugs a female police member during a protest near Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's private residence, amid the country's economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka on June 22, 2022. (Photo by Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)

Women perform the Chilean protest song about rape culture, “A rapist in your path”, during a protest march marking International Women's Day, in Lima, Peru. Saturday, March 7, 2020. March 8th has been sponsored by the United Nations since 1975 as International Women's Day, celebrating women's achievements and aiming to further their rights. Marches and protests are held across the globe with calls for a more gender-balanced world to mark the day. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)

Members of the South Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) perform with traditional Korean masks during a rally against the government's Labor Policy in Seoul, South Korea, 06 July 2023. South Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) begen a general strike on a national scale from 03 July against the South Korean government's labor policy and against Japan's disposal of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea. (Photo by Jeon Heon-Kyun/EPA)

Boca Juniors' Paraguayan defender Bruno Valdez (bottom) and Nacional's forward Bruno Damiani fight for the ball during the Copa Libertadores round of 16 second leg football match between Argentina's Boca Juniors and Uruguay's Nacional, at La Bombonera stadium in Buenos Aires, on August 9, 2023. (Photo by Juan Mabromata/AFP Photo)

People decorate a street with candles inside oranges during the Epitaph ceremony during Good Friday's “Apokathelosis”, the Descent of Christ's dead body from the Cross, which forms a key part of Orthodox Easter, in the southern city of Leonidio, at the Peloponnese peninsula on April 26, 2019. Millions of Greeks flock to churches around the country this week to celebrate Easter, the country's foremost religious celebration. (Photo by Aris Messinis/AFP Photo)

A women attends a class at a driving school in Kabul August 17, 2014. Kabul is one of the world's fastest growing cities and its streets are increasingly blocked by cars and buses. In the city's private driving schools, students pay a $60 fee for a 45-day course, which includes oral and practical driving tests at the country's Traffic Department. Some of the women who have signed up say learning to drive is a way to escape unwanted gazes and physical harassment on the cramped, crowded minibuses that are often the only method of urban public transport. (Photo by Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)

A Colombian flower grower selects a rose for a bouquet ahead of Valentine's Day in Subachoque, February 2, 2015. Colombia is the world's second-largest flower exporter behind the Netherlands. The Andean country exports around 500 million flowers to the U.S. for Valentine's Day, according to the Colombia Flower Growers Association. (Photo by John Vizcaino/Reuters)