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• W2510242919 abstract "Kumi Naidoo possesses a unique perspective on what it means to work internationally from the South. And from the North. Born in South Africa in 1965, Naidoo has been Greenpeace’s executive director since 2009, being the first African to head the international environmental giant. Prior to joining Greenpeace, he has been an activist against apartheid in his home country, headed an international organization based in the South – Civicus – and led global initiatives such as the Global Call to Action Against Poverty and the Global Call for Climate Action.Never one to be content working from behind a desk, Naidoo has been arrested, imprisoned and deported several times while fighting for human rights and environmental justice, most recently for occupying an oil platform in the Artic in 2011. Perhaps surprisingly, he has also always had much transit in the highest circles of those who he combats, having been invited many times to participate in meetings such as the UN and the World Economic Forum. But he has not been awed by this. In the interview below, which he has granted Conectas last May, Naidoo calls on human rights defenders to engage in civil disobedience and questions civil society participation in high profile meetings and even challenges consecrated concepts such as the rule of law.“The rule of law consolidated all the injustices in the world that existed before the rule of law”, he says. “We need a new, nuanced, more critical reading of exactly what the rule of law means in a context of extreme injustice, in which the powerful in society are literally able to get away with murder, with regard to ensuring that the majority of people aren’t denied justice.”But how to achieve change? For him, strategies such as high profile advocacy have limited chances of success. A regular in high profile gatherings in New York, Geneva and even Davos, Naidoo warns against organizations “confusing access for influence” – that is, being used solely to grant legitimacy to these meetings. “Some official is ticking off some box that says ‘civil society consulted’, ‘civil society input achieved’ because some of us were at the meeting. But too often, we might have the right to speak, but we don’t have the right to be listened to properly.”His solution is combining advocacy and direct action. “If you put all your eggs on the advocacy basket, and you do not have a constituency and you cannot engage in civil disobedience, politicians will continue to do what they have been doing for decades and decades, which is: they make nice speeches, they listen to us, and then they ignore us.”For him, the answer is civil disobedience. “Whenever humanity was confronted with great injustice or challenges – women’s right to vote, slavery, colonialism, civil rights in the United States, apartheid in South Africa –, these issues only moved forward when decent men and women stood up and said ‘Enough is enough, and no more!’. People were prepared to go to prison if necessary; they were prepared to put their lives on the line if necessary.”Read below the complete interview with Naidoo, where he also speaks about issues such as the right to peaceful protest, the corporate capture of democracy and Greenpeace’s member participation strategies." @default.
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