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 news and "The 7.30 Report". Naidoo then moved to the ABC's "National Late Edition News" in Sydney where she developed a cult following as the ABC's youngest national news host. She has also written extensively for several food and travel magazines including "Australian Gourmet Traveller", "The Sydney Morning Herald's" 'Good Living' and "The Sunday Herald's" 'Sunday Life' Magazine. In 1997, Naidoo was headhunted to present SBS News' inaugural "Late News", which she hosted for three years, during which she covered the independence struggle in East Timor, the coups in Fiji and the Balkans war in Kosovo. In 2006, Naidoo became