Fatima Gailani (Pashto: فاطمه گیلانی; born in Kabul in 1954)[1] is an Afghan political leader and women's rights activist, who previously served as president of the Afghan Red Crescent Society.
She graduated secondary school from the Centre d'Enseignement Français en Afghanistan.
After the Taliban regime fell in 2001, she returned to Afghanistan as a delegate in the 2002 loya jirga and then to participate in drafting a new constitution.
[10] While recovering from cancer, she was one of only four women to have participated in talks with the Taliban in Doha, Qatar in 2020.
[11][12] After the Fall of Kabul in August 2021, she stated that the negotiating team had been close to a peace deal "and then oops, the President has disappeared.