Updates
Equal Right at the Summit of the Future
Our Asia Pacific Campaign Manager Zainab Bie was at the Summit of the Future in New York this September. Read about her experience and how she put Cap and Share on the agenda!
Club of Rome and Equal Right
Equal Right's executive director Laura Bannister, and our international advisory board member Sarath Davala, Chair of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) have co-authored the Club of Rome's new Deep Dive paper titled, 'Unconditional cash transfers and the five turnarounds: beneficiaries' perspective'.
How to raise $1 trillion for climate loss and damage funding
This September, in Derna, Libya, a wall of water taller than the palm trees ripped through the city at more than 120 kilometers per hour. More than 4,000 people died and a further 8,000 are still missing. Many survivors are crammed into...
COP28 must not repeat the mistakes of the Africa Climate Summit
In late November, the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) will be launched in Dubai. Coming at the end of a year which broke multiple heat records, the event is supposed to set the stage for a major push to...
Carbon tax for global justice: ‘Cap and share’
In mid June 2022, farmers across Pakistan gazed out across thriving fields of rice, maize and mung beans, looking forward to bringing in the harvest in a few months’ time. Then the floods began: nearly half of the country’s crops were...
World Basic Income becomes... Equal Right
We have changed our name - welcome to our new-look website based around our new name, 'Equal Right'.
We started life in 2016 as World Basic Income. At the heart of this name was a demand for global justice. We believe that the world's resources need to be...
A Bone of Contention in Bonn
As the one percent of the world once again meet in Bonn for the annual climate ritual of setting the 28th Conference Of Parties (COP28), the 99% remain in their communities without a voice or a seat at the table.
People of the world call for a UN tax convention
On Saturday 15th October a coalition of more than 200 social justice organisations from across the world joined the G77, China and the Africa Group at the United Nations in demanding a UN tax convention to tackle elite tax avoidance and...
Climate, carbon dividends and justice
The most obvious solution to the climate emergency is to phase out the extraction of fossil fuels. Our latest podcast episode explores how this can be done in a way that supports climate justice.
Listen to our new podcast Act Global
Today we are delighted to launch our brand new podcast, Act Global. It's an upbeat economics podcast that explores real workable solutions for global justice. We're aiming to produce one episode per month and include guests from...
Five years on, we've made world basic income 'a thing'
Five years ago this month, Paul Harnett and I made French onion soup for 100 people (Paul chopped so many onions he had blisters from the knife). It was served up in the lunch break at our inaugural conference, which was the first in the world to explore...
Writing the WBI book: Funding worldwide basic income
In the months since our book-writing crowdfunder (thanks a million to everyone who donated!), I've been working hard on the book's central chapter: how a worldwide basic income could be funded.