Sarah Ahmed is a human rights defender from Karbala Governorate in Iraq. She is among four founders of the Volunteer Climate Prospect Team, a civil society organisation that sparked from the successful Climate Prospects Campaign, which fought for a national strategy on climate change and the protection of climate activists’ right to freedom of expression. On 28 December 2023, Ahmed wrote on Facebook: “From a limited-time campaign to a volunteer team and then a registered organisation… we end the year with this achievement in the field of our passion… We continue to strive to make a difference in this world.”