Expertise: Human Rights, Law. 

Languages: Arabic.

Bio: Heba Aidarous (@HibaAidaroos) is a lawyer, human rights defender, a defender of the Aden culture heritage, and Member of the Egyptian Society for Forensic Sciences and Forensic Medicine. She has a Master’s Degree is in Criminal Law and is a current Ph.D. candidate in Law at Ain Shams University, Egypt.  She joined work as a Teaching Assistant member of the Faculty of Law at Aden University. 

Heba is the director of Swasya Organization for Human Rights and the head of the Detainees and Forced Disappeared Follow-Up Team. Previously, she was the Yemeni Ambassador for the International Unity for Children's Rights. During her career, she worked in the administration board in the Amal Foundation, was a member of the Southern Transitional Council for the Support and Decision Making Center, and then became the Head of the Southern Transitional Council Legal Department. 

Heba has participated in many international and local events with UN Women, Crisis Management Initiative, and the International Foundation for Election and Democracy. Heba has many extensive research papers in science, law, and rights. She has a research paper about the risks of drugs and its solutions, a policy paper about the first women conference held in Aden, and a working paper on the national and international mechanisms in achieving the principle of fairness to victims. Heba also has a working paper on Yemeni women in the crime and penal code and its role in peacebuilding. She won first place in a number of scientific research competitions in training courses, such as the “Information Crimes” course organized by the International Arab Summit Academy for Advanced Studies and Scientific Research, and the “Digital Transformation and Personal Data Protection” course organized by the International Arab Summit Academy for Advanced Studies and Scientific Research.

Heba holds a professional diploma for preparing Arab women leaders internationally and regionally from the International Center for Leadership Development and the Afro-Asian Federation for International Law and Conflict Resolution in Egypt with a degree (consultant - expert in women's issues), and she has a professional diploma in international humanitarian law, from the Human Rights Committee (General Syndicate For lawyers in Egypt.) She also holds a certificate in the training program on women's leadership skills from the Canadian Academy for Training and Consulting in June 2020. She is a trainer in resilient women’s leadership accredited by the European Union Parliament as part of the resilient leadership trainers’ training program “Towards Strengthening the Resilience of Women Human Rights Defenders” in partnership with the Feminist Peace Path Initiative and the Akun Foundation for Rights and Freedoms 2022.