Azra Jafari (Persian: عذرا جعفری) is an Afghan politician and women rights advocate who became the first female mayor in Afghanistan appointed by President Hamid Karzai in December 2008.

She became the mayor of Nili, a town in Daykundi Province of Afghanistan.

After the removal of the Taliban in late 2001 and the establishment of the new western-backed Karzai administration, she returned and participated in the Emergency Loya Jirga in Kabul.

[1][3] Azra Jafari was editor-in-chief of Afghan social and cultural magazine Farhang in 1998.

Her other book, I am a Working Woman, talks about employment law and the rights of Afghan women in the labour market, and was published in 2008.