Senior management at Amnesty International pressured an employee to give up breastfeeding and subjected others to systemic verbal and psychological abuse, a number of former staff have told openDemocracy – one of whom has breached a gagging order to speak out.
Five ex-employees of the human rights organisation’s Hungary office, all of whom are women, say they experienced discrimination, gaslighting and manipulation.
The alleged abuse took place while AI produced a 56-page report titled ‘No working around it: Gender-based discrimination in Hungarian workplaces’, which urged authorities and employers to act to end gender- and maternity-based employment discrimination.
