Amnesty International, the human rights champion, is culling its senior management team after staff suicides and internal discontent led to it being labelled a toxic workplace.
Five of the seven members of the senior leadership team at Amnesty’s international secretariat are leaving the organisation after a review by Kumi Naidoo, its new secretary-general.
There is anger that the five are due to receive “generous” redundancy payments while up to 100 other Amnesty workers are losing their jobs amid a financial crisis in the organisation.
One insider said: “People who work for Amnesty are very committed, very dedicated, we’re really worried about what’s happening and what the organisation will become.” Mr Naidoo, who needs to plug a £17 million hole in the organisation’s budget, is believed