Jamila Afghani (Persian: جمیله افغانی; born 1976 in Kabul)[1] is a feminist and an activist for women's rights and education in Afghanistan.

She is the founder and executive director of the Noor Educational and Capacity Development Organization (NECDO).

[7] In Kabul, her program has "resulted in a series of khutbas (Friday sermons) in twenty of the city's influential mosques.

[10] Afghani has discovered through her work that "women's mouths get shut when they don't have Islamic justifications" because Afghan culture is very religious and conservative.

[7] Afghani has said that the "program is its own kind of revolution because religious leaders once known for oppressing women now use the words of the Quran to promote fairness for them.

[8] She believes that one of the problems with Afghanistan is that the citizens are unable to distinguish the differences between "Islam, culture and politics.