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,
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