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 of South Africa. Naidoo, like many South African-born Indians, identifies himself as a Black South African. He noted that the completion of his doctorate was absolutely essential given that he was told that he was "the first Indian activist" from South Africa to earn a doctorate at Oxford. After Nelson Mandela's release from prison in 1990, Kumi Naidoo returned to South Africa to work on the legalisation of the African National Congress to lead the adult literacy campaigns and voter education efforts. Naidoo was the founding member and Executive Director of the South African National NGO Coalition (SANGOCO). From 1998