June 30, 2004

Afghan women wait for their registration to vote in the country's first election at the voter registration center in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, June 29, 2004. The women are some of the refugees repatriated to Afghanistan from Southern Iran to participate at elections where more than 4 million Afghans, one-third of them women, have signed up for a September vote supposed to cement an era of peace after the disasters of Taliban rule, civil war and Soviet occupation. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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