In this photograph taken on September 13, 2022, newly recruited Taliban fighters parade in armoured vehicles after their graduation ceremony in Herat. (Photo by Mohsen Karimi/AFP Photo)
A Palestinian man holds a giant teddy bear as he rides a motorcycle on Valentine's day in Gaza city, on February 14, 2023. Valentine's Day is increasingly popular in the region as people have taken up the custom of giving flowers, cards, chocolates and gifts to sweethearts to celebrate the occasion. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Natalia Grossman of the USA competes during the women's finals of the IFSC Climbing World Cup Meiringen on April 09, 2022 in Meiringen, Switzerland. (Photo by Marco Kost/Getty Images)
A woman throws olives into a freshly-harvested pile beneath a tree, during the harvest season in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 5, 2023. (Photo by Said Khatib/AFP Photo)
An Indigenous woman smokes during a protest demanding a better health care system be made available in her region, including the hiring of more doctors and nurses as well as the building of more clinics, outside the Ministry of Health in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, February 8, 2023. (Photo by Gustavo Moreno/AP Photo)
An Iranian woman without wearing her mandatory Islamic headscarf flashes a victory sign as two head-to-toe veiled women walk at the old main bazaar of Tehran, Iran, Thursday, June 13, 2024. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)
A horse rolls in mud in the Romani camp in Velykyi Bereznyi urban-type settlement, Zakarpattia Region, western Ukraine on February 28, 2021. (Photo by Ukrinform/Rex Features/Shutterstock)
Members of the police forces of Republic of Srpska march during a parade marking the 30th anniversary of the Republic of Srpska in Banja Luka, northern Bosnia, Sunday, January 9, 2022. This week Bosnian Serb political leader Milorad Dodik was slapped with new U.S. sanctions for alleged corruption. Dodik maintains the West is punishing him for championing the rights of ethnic Serbs in Bosnia – a dysfunctional country of 3.3 million that's never truly recovered from a fratricidal war in the 1990s that became a byname for ethnic cleansing and genocide. (Photo by Radivoje Pavicic/AP Photo)