Kumi Naidoo

The Internet and social media are extraordinary engines of change helping to drive revolutions and positive social change. They've become central tools for how we put pressure on polluters and governments. But if we are not careful, the Internet could become an internal combustion engine that fuels climate change instead....

What would you do with $1738 billion (U.S. dollars)? If you were told you had to spend it this year on making people safer, what would you spend it on? $1738 billion is how much was spent on the world's military last year, according to estimates by the...

An open letter to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Disruptive diplomacy may be the only way out of the Iran-Israel nuclear crisis: the only way to pierce the hegemony of hypocrisy dominating the power politics of nuclear weapons control, of those who have them,...

On Monday South Korea deported three senior Greenpeace staff, known for their role in our campaign against that country's nuclear expansion plans. This is just the latest proof that nuclear power and democracy do not mix. It's the latest attack on freedom of speech from an industry forged in the...

"My rice crops dried... as if they were burnt with fire... I did not harvest rice the year before too... Last year the rain started well, but it suddenly stopped... Some days we can not find food for our children ..." these plaintive words come from Kadia Samate,...

At the World Economics Forum in Davos last week, no one was denying that we face serious economic, social and environmental crises. When even the Financial Times runs a series of articles on "Capitalism in crisis," it's obvious that it's not just the "Occupy WEF" protesters, who...

If I bump into Professor Klaus Schwab, who started and still runs the World Economic Forum here in Davos, I will challenge him on the purpose of the event. Schwab has described the WEF as "a platform for collaborative thinking and searching for solutions, not for making decisions."

The Davos...

In the history book of bad ideas, the concept of giving corporations the right to censor the internet has to rank among the worst ever.

That's what the impact of two bills recently introduced in the US would be if they, or anything like them, were enacted...

We hope, we wish and we pray that the U.S. team at the UN Climate talks in Durban would set aside its obstructive, destructive behavior. But sadly, listening to U.S. negotiators Pershing and Stern, that is not going to happen. For that reason Greenpeace, WWF, Oxfam and the International Trades...

Of the many things I'd forgotten about my home town of Durban, the one I'm reminded of most often is the humidity. When we were kids here we'd go to discos and be dripping with sweat after a few minutes of dancing. It's...

At the weekend my Twitter feed was alive with news of the hundreds of thousands of people around the world, including in my adopted city of Amsterdam, taking a stand in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement.

It is a movement that has quickly spread far beyond the shadows...

The Huffington Post has been kind enough to include me in their list of game changers for 2011. It really is an honor to see myself in the company of such amazing and inspiring people - all of whom are doing fantastic work.

While all of the nominees deserve...

This is a profile of one of our staff working in Beijing and his personal journey to becoming an activist that I find truly inspiring:

My name is Tom Wang. Tom is my English name. I gave it to myself when I was learning English from my British teacher. She...

"The idea exists that the ecology movement is a late-blooming fad, something to do with hippies; a fad, moreover, that will vanish the moment serious jobs-versus-nature battles come down in the wake of the first macro waves of recession," wrote Greenpeace founder, Canadian, Bob Hunter, in an unpublished 1990 forward...

Earlier this month, 20 Greenpeace activists were arrested for trying to prevent Scotland's Cairn Energy from its outrageous plan to drill for oil in the Arctic. Sickened by the risks the oil industry is ready to take with our planet, and greatly inspired by the dedication of my colleagues, late...

On June 12 -13, Italians have the opportunity to say "no!" to nuclear power in their country. Berlusconi's government has plans for four new reactors -- but the people have demanded a referendum on the issue of nuclear energy. Surveys show that a majority of Italians are against it; however,...

My guide, when I went to visit Chernobyl on the 25th anniversary of the accident, was a Greenpeace campaigner from Germany named Tobias Muenchmeyer. Tobias is the deputy head of our political unit in Berlin and also happens to know a great deal about nuclear power. But what really registered...

Kumi Naidoo and Nuclear Campaigner Yannick Rousselet protest the passage of a train carrying nuclear waste. Image: Pierre Gleizes.

Two months after the devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, our thoughts are with those who have lost loved ones, those who face an uncertain future...

It is hard to quantify the influence that new media has had on the epic, era-defining events of the last few weeks and months. From the revolutions in the Arab world to the disasters in Japan, social networks have played a vital role in organizing collective responses, monitoring developments, and...