Soraya Parlika (1944-2019) was an Afghan women's rights activist and politician (People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan).
She was born in a well-to-do Pashtun family from the village Kamari in the Bagrami district southeast of Kabul.
She also participated in the demonstrations against a draft law proposed by conservative Islamic members to ban girls and women from studying abroad, a month of protests which included an occupation of the parliament, until the bill was dropped.
[1] She successfully worked for extended maternity leave to 90 days, with 180 days of possible additional unpaid leave; retirement at the age of 55 and the establishment of nursery schools and kindergartens in workplaces, which was formally introduced by the PDPA after the advocacy of her and the DOAW.
[1] She founded the Ettehadiya-ye Sarasari-ye Zanan-e Afghanistan (All-Afghanistan Women's Union, AAWU; in some sources ‘Association’ and AAWA), which worked under cower during the Taliban regime to provide women with home schooling and underground home training courses.