It is with sadness that I mark the death by its own hand of what was for two generations the world’s leading defender and promoter of human rights. Following a dispute with the head of its gender unit, Amnesty International has confirmed that the international campaigning body is now morally bankrupt.

Gita Sahgal speaks.

Amnesty’s demise is undoubtedly bad news, but organisations come and organisations go, and corporate entities have no value in themselves. While this latest development is a setback, it is also a challenge to which defenders of liberty and human dignity will surely rise.