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
Leigh-Ann Naidoo Leigh-Ann Naidoo Leigh-Ann Naidoo (born 12 July 1976 in Durban) is a South African beach volleyball player. Naidoo began her career at the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour in 1999 attending only the Acapulco Open alongside Alena Schurkova. Already with partner Julia Willand she attended more stages in the 2004 season culminating with the participation in the 2004 Summer Olympics, in Athens. They lost all three matches in the group stage and did not advance to the medal round. Naidoo currently resides in Johannesburg and has been married to Kelly Gillespie since 2007. Before the 2004 Olympics she became known