Shafiqa Quraishi

Shafiqa Quraishi is an Afghan women's rights activist. As of 2010 she is a police colonel and the director of Gender, Human and Child Rights within the Ministry of the Interior of Afghanistan. She founded and led a working group on the Afghan National Gender Recruitment Strategy, with the goal of getting 5,000 women to work in the Ministry of the Interior and making the Ministry of the Interior better at serving the women of Afghanistan.

Quraishi had her work disrupted during the Taliban rule of Afghanistan from the mid-1990s until 2001.

She received a 2010 International Women of Courage award.