Kumi Naidoo

Naidoo during the 55th MSC 2019

Kumi Naidoo (* 1965 in Durban ) is a South African environmental and human rights activist . He was Secretary General of Amnesty International from August 2018 to December 2019 . From November 2009 to December 2015 he was Director of Greenpeace . He was the first African to head the organization.

Career

At a young age he fought against apartheid in South Africa as a member of the Indian community , which led to his arrest in 1986 and exile in 1989. Later he was active in the global fight against poverty and in various international organizations ( Civicus , Global Campaign for Climate Action (GCCA), Clinton Global Initiative , Amnesty International , World Economic Forum , UNIFEM ). In 2005 he was one of the founders of GCAP ( Global Call to Action Against Poverty , see Your Voice Against Poverty ). In 2017 he was on the board of three newly founded organizations in his native South Africa: Africans Rising for Justice, Peace and Dignity; Campaign for a Just Energy Future and Global Climate Finance Campaign. In August 2018 he became the International Secretary General of Amnesty International in London.

He holds a PhD in Political Science from Magdalen College , Oxford and a BA in Law and Political Science from the University of Durban-Westville .

In February 2015, as part of the spy cable leaks, it became known that the South African secret service had been observing Naidoo since 2010 at the latest.

Web links

Commons : Kumi Naidoo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gerald Traufetter: New chief activist Naidoo: Ex-street fighter wants to turn Greenpeace inside out. Spiegel Online, December 4, 2009.
• Michaela Schießl: Savior on the wrong track. Der Spiegel 26/2014, June 23, 2014.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Amnesty International's Secretary General steps down. Retrieved May 11, 2020 . 
2. ^ New leadership at Greenpeace International . Greenpeace . Archived from the original on June 17, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 17, 2009. 
3. ^ ^{A b} New Greenpeace chief has fought apartheid, poverty , The Associated Press. November 16, 2009. Archived from the original on November 28, 2009. Retrieved on November 17, 2009. 
4. ↑ Kumi Naidoo . Greenpeace . November 16, 2009. Archived from the original on November 22, 2009. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 30, 2009. 
5. ↑ Kumi Naidoo . The Huffington Post . Retrieved November 30, 2009.
6. ↑ Kumi Naidoo . Amnesty International . Retrieved December 21, 2017.
7. ↑ Seumas Milne, Ewan McAskill: Spy cables: Greenpeace head targeted by intelligence agencies before Seoul G20 . The Guardian (London). February 25, 2015. Retrieved February 25, 2015.