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fatana ishaq gailani

Managing Director of Afghanistan Women Council, Head of the Khorasan MCH Clinic, Chief Editor of Afghan Women Weekly

Ms. Fatana Said Gailani, who comes from an influential family of Kabul, has become one of the most prominent advocates of Afghan women’s rights.

Fatana Gailani - The Head of womens Right Organisation

She had sought refuge in Pakistan in late due to her opposition to the Communist regime of Noor Mohammad Tarraki. She began her humanitarian work in by raising funds for medical assistance for Afghan refugees. She later set up a health clinic and a high School and then she founded the Afghanistan Women Council in She began her work as a defender of human rights, women's rights, children's rights, peace building and democracy.

Later, beginning in , she released a monthly publication on AWC. She also started a mobile clinic in the Afghan Refugee Camps, began Income Generation activities, psychosocial counseling, relief activities and established the only Center for Higher Education where boys and Fatima Gailani - Center for International and Regional Studies SOC