Kumi Naidoo Amnesty International is the largest human rights movement globally, with a global presence including offices in more than 70 countries, 2,600 staff and seven million members, volunteers and supporters worldwide. He opened his first session in Africa. Kumi Naidoo Kumi Naidoo (born 1965) is a South African-born human rights activist of Indian descent who is the current Secretary-General of Amnesty International. Naidoo was the first African head of Greenpeace, an international environmentalist group, serving as its International Executive Director from 2009 to 2015. After battling apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s through the Helping Hands Youth Organisation,
Kumi Naidoo 2008. Recently, he led the Global Call for Climate Action (Tcktcktck.org), which brings together environmental aid, religious and human rights groups, labour unions, scientists and others and has organised mass demonstrations around climate negotiations. Starting August 2018, Naidoo is the Ninth Secretary-General of Amnesty International. Born in Durban, South Africa, Naidoo became involved in anti-apartheid activities when he was just 15, resulting in his expulsion from high school. He was involved in neighbourhood organising, community youth work, and mass mobilisations against the apartheid regime. During the apartheid government, Naidoo was arrested several times and was charged for violating provisions against