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EiGHT | Human Rights Accountability & Humanitarian Integrity

Principles in Practice: Rights & Relief

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We stand for accountability in the human rights and humanitarian sector — and for its renewal.

Why EiGHT?

Why EiGHT?

The human rights and humanitarian sector plays a critical role in shaping public discourse, policy decisions, and legal processes worldwide—and yet it remains largely self-regulating. Too often, moral authority substitutes for independent scrutiny, while claims of rigor, neutrality, transparency, and accountability go largely untested. Founded by former human rights and humanitarian professionals from major global institutions, EiGHT exists to address this accountability gap: bringing practitioner insight to a sector that is rarely questioned, despite its influence.
What We Do

What We Do

EiGHT advances accountability and credibility across the human rights and humanitarian ecosystem by focusing on three core areas: • Illuminating practices in a largely opaque, unexamined sector, including by giving voice to industry insiders and explaining system processes. • Advancing accountability, including by supporting measurable, sector-wide standards to replace today’s voluntary principles, guidelines, and self-regulation. • Forging renewal, including by advancing non-ideological discussion on the sector’s failures, and—with partners—building the foundations of a more credible human rights and humanitarian 2.0.
Our Approach

Our Approach

We adopt core elements of human rights practice: giving voice to victims, speaking truth to power, and protecting those at risk through confidentiality and anonymity when necessary. Just as rights organizations connect individual cases to reveal broader patterns of abuse, we connect failures across the sector—showing how isolated incidents often point to broader system failures.
Why Now?

Why Now?

Human rights and humanitarian principles are eroding at an alarming pace. After October 7, 2023, professionals across the sector connected in shared alarm. Many organizations issued muted or “contextualized” responses to Hamas’s massacres and hostage-taking, shaped by selective ideological narratives. Few meaningfully held Hamas to account for deliberately endangering Palestinian lives. October 7 did not create the problem; it exposed it: politicized advocacy, weak accountability, and lack of independent mechanisms to test institutional claims or protect those who raise concerns. This moment requires more than outrage—or hope. Our response is EiGHT.

OUR EiGHT PiLLARS

WHY "EiGHT"?

Universal Symbol

Across cultures, the number eight represents balance, renewal, and continuity. In Jewish tradition, it symbolizes striving beyond the natural order toward what ought to be — an ethical horizon rooted in justice.

Integrity Through Tension

The vertical "8" evokes dualities held in balance — a reminder that principled human rights and humanitarian work must engage complexity without losing clarity, consistency, or fairness.

Infinity (∞)

Turned sideways, eight becomes the infinity symbol, expressing the timeless dignity of every human, and the enduring responsibility to protect it.

Moment of Reckoning

October 7, 2023, was a turning point for many human rights and humanitarian professionals, whose search for a framework grounded in consistency, courage, and professional integrity began the next day: October 8.

Letters With Purpose

EiGHT reflects core foundations of principled human rights and humanitarian work: equality, governance, humanity, and transparency — with a lowercase "i" emphasizing the integrity these institutions must reclaim.

LIVING WALL OF ACCOUNTABILITY AND EVIDENCE

Human rights and humanitarian NGOs publicly champion free expression, safe workplaces, and robust accountability. They claim impartiality, rigor, equality, and universal values. Yet too often, information that clearly serves the public interest remains concealed. Across the sector, professionals report being dismissed, sidelined, or retaliated against for raising concerns, while non-disclosure agreements compel silence even after departure. This wall offers a protected space for testimony, documentation, and accountability. Each contribution is another brick in the evidentiary wall, recording mission drift and failed standards and making patterns of harm harder to ignore, deny, or bury. We adopt a human rights methodology: granting anonymity to those at risk of retaliation, treating every incident as serious in its own right, and—when triangulated with other information—as part of a wider pattern of systemic failure across the sector. Press on a brick to learn more.

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FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT

SENIOR MANAGER, GLOBAL RIGHTS ORG

"Shoot first"

FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT

"Sinwar...Legend!"

Oct 7: "a wider audience"

"Died" in Hamas "custody"

"Grip of Zionism"

Facism=Nazism=Zionism

Israeli-free Oct 7

FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT

FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT

"These child killers..."

"Greatest threat" to Jews

"Triggered"?

Heart for Hezbollah band

"The Colonizer..."

"76-year-old Crime Scene"

FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT

Hamas: violent?

Antisemitic Tweets?

No Responsibility Here!

"From the River to the Sea"

Red Cross demands, kinda

"Out to the Hadid Sisters"

Disney over hostages

Israel-LITE post Oct 7

Secret TV, Film Work

FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT

Kidnapped? Who cares?

"Embarrassing" Oct 7 empathy