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 redistributed so that the right to a decent life does not stop at rich nation's borders.

Over time our work has expanded, and we now work on a range of topics that all focus on how money and wealth could be redistributed/returned from the 1% to the 99% and from Global North to South. We still believe that Universal Basic Income is a good mechanism for getting that money and wealth to the global grassroots, but other forms of redistribution - such as through public spending on healthcare, education and climate initiatives, or through redistribution to communities - are also great options. The key goal is to achieve redistribution without borders, and we want to work with people around the world to co-create what that could look like and build a broad-based movement to make it happen.

Our new name, Equal Right, was chosen by our members to reflect our belief that people everywhere have an equal right to economic justice, an equal right to a safe climate and an equal right to a decent life. We hope you'll join us in working to make that happen.