Abuses must be acknowledged or Amnesty International will face crisis of credibility

Amnesty International states that its prime mission is “to undertake research and action, focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination”. Given such lofty sentiments, it is shocking to learn that the global human rights organisation has itself been found wanting in that regard.

A “toxic culture” of workplace bullying at Amnesty has been exposed in an independent review of the organisation prompted by the suicides of two staff members last year. The review found evidence of bullying, harassment, sexism, and racism — all of them forms of injustice that Amnesty has been combatting for decades.