Waheeda Omer is a humanitarian, justice, and protection professional with over eight years of experience leading complex projects in conflict-affected environments, with a strong focus on survivor-centered justice, accountability, and minority community protection. She currently serves as Justice Manager at Free Yezidi Foundation, where she oversees justice initiatives aimed at documenting crimes, supporting survivor testimony, and advancing evidence-based accountability efforts related to the crimes committed against the Yezidi community.

A humanitarian from Sinjar, Iraq, Waheeda specializes in sensitive field investigations, survivor and witness interviewing, and structured evidence collection for international crimes documentation. Her work contributes to the preparation of perpetrator dossiers, crime scene analysis, and advocacy efforts that support long-term justice and accountability mechanisms. She is committed to ethical, survivor-centered methodologies, applying strict do-no-harm, confidentiality, and trauma-informed protection standards in all programming.

Throughout her career, Waheeda has led multidisciplinary teams across justice, protection, and community outreach sectors, managing program implementation, monitoring and evaluation, stakeholder coordination, and donor reporting. She has demonstrated strong strategic and operational leadership in designing and supervising protection and justice initiatives, including programs supporting vulnerable survivors and women with children born of rape.

Fluent in Kurdish, Arabic, and English, Waheeda provides high-level translation, interpretation, and cross-cultural communication support in complex humanitarian and investigative contexts. Her technical expertise includes program management, investigative interviewing, open-source intelligence, and humanitarian protection operations in post-conflict settings.
Waheeda brings strategic insight into minority protection, survivor justice, and community resilience programming. She is particularly interested in supporting initiatives that promote inclusive services, ethical engagement with vulnerable populations, and sustainable community-driven solutions.