Kumi Naidoo 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, Naidoo led global campaigns to end poverty and protect human rights. He has served as the Secretary-General of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty and of Civicus, an international alliance for citizen participation, from 1998 to
Indira Naidoo impacts of anthropogenic climate change. Her first book, "The Edible Balcony", an urban farming cookbook, published by Penguin in October 2011, sold over 10,000 copies within six months and has been reprinted four times. Her second book The Edible City was published in August 2015. Naidoo is the sustainability curator with the Australian Garden Show Sydney. Naidoo gained national prominence in 1997 for her less serious appearances on the ABC's "Club Buggery", a late-night comedy variety show hosted by Roy & HG in which she starred as policewoman Barbara in a regular comedy sketch—a police spoof titled "Sam Stain" alongside