Selay Ghaffar (Pashto: سیلی غفار; born October 5, 1983) in Farah province in western Afghanistan.

[1] As she was born into an intellectual family, she grew up with high motivation to always fight and struggle for the rights of devastated people.

She started her career as a social activist by helping Afghan children and women in refugee camps back in Pakistan.

During the era of Taliban, she was part of the group to establish literacy and science courses for girls and women in provinces such as Nangarhar, Laghman, Farah and Herat.

During her career with HAWCA, she managed to provide free education and health care for numbers of children and women in many provinces, legal aid and protection to female victims of violence, she educated young girls in leadership tools, and she worked at different levels for women's human rights.