South African human rights and climate justice activist (1965-
Kumi Naidoo
Naidoo during the MSC 2019
Born
1965
Durban, South Africa
Nationality
South African
Alma mater
University of Oxford
Occupation
Human rights activist
Organization
Amnesty International
Title
Secretary-General of Amnesty International
Kumi Naidoo (b 1965 in Durban, South Africa) is a human rights and climate justice activist. He was International Executive Director of Greenpeace International (from 2009 through 2015)[1] and Secretary General of Amnesty International (from 2018 through 2019[2]). Naidoo served as the Secretary-General of CIVICUS,[3] the international alliance for citizen participation, from 1998 to 2008. As a fifteen-year old, he organised students in school boycotts[4] against the apartheid regime and its educational system in South Africa. Naidoo’s activism went from neighbourhood organising and community youth work to civil disobedience with mass mobilisations against the white controlled apartheid government. Naidoo is a co-founder of the Helping Hands Youth Organisation.[5] He has written about his activism in this period in his memoirs titled, Letters to My Mother: The Making of a Troublemaker.[6] In the book Naidoo recounts the day of his mother’s suicide when he was just 15 and how it became a catalyst for his journey into radical action against the Nationalist Party’s apartheid regime.[7]
Kumi served as the Launch Executive Director of Africans Rising for Justice, Peace & Dignity (2016)[8] and he was appointed as the Inaugural Global Ambassador in June 2020.[8] He has also served the Global Call to Action Against Poverty and the Global Call for Climate Action (Tcktcktck.org) , which brings together environmental aid, religious and human rights groups, labour unions, scientists and others and has organised mass demonstrations around climate negotiations. Kumi Naidoo was most recently a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy[9] He has lectured at Fossil Free University (2019 through 2021).[10] He has served as a Special Advisor to the Green Economy Coalition .[11] Kumi is an Honorary Fellow at Magdalen College and a Visiting Fellow at Oxford.[12]
^"Greenpeace - GPI Executive Director Kumi Naidoo". media.greenpeace.org. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
^""Bigger, bolder and more inclusive": Kumi Naidoo sets out his vision for human rights". Amnesty International. 16 August 2018. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
^"About CIVICUS". CIVICUS Global Alliance. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
^Naidoo, Kumi (1992). "The Politics of Youth Resistance in the 1980s: The Dilemmas of a Differentiated Durban". Journal of Southern African Studies. 18 (1): 143–165. doi:10.1080/03057079208708309. ISSN 0305-7070. JSTOR 2637185.
^"CHAPTER FOUR: The Revival Of Alliance Politics, 1982-1984 by Kumi Naidoo | South African History Online". www.sahistory.org.za. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
^"Letters to My Mother: The Making of a Troublemaker – Kumi Naidoo". www.polity.org.za. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
^"'Once you've read this book you will never be the same again' – Letters to My Mother: The Making of a Troublemaker by Kumi Naidoo". The Reading List. 5 October 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
^"Africans are rising – we are going to build a different kind of future | Kumi Naidoo". the Guardian. 26 March 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
^"Introduced: Kumi Naidoo". Robert Bosch Academy. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
^"Fossil Free University". www.fossilfreeuniversity.org. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
^"GEC at the SDG Festival of Global Action". Green Economy Coalition. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
^"Kumi Naidoo". Magdalen College. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
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