Updates
Find our latest blog posts, events and media appearances below!
COP29 Was a Missed Opportunity: Rethinking Our Path to a Just and Sustainable Future
Read Director for LATAM Carlos’ Op-Ed on the aftermath of COP29 and the opportunity to move towards global solidarity mechanisms ahead of COP30. Originally published in Common Dreams.
How a Global Universal Income Could Help Poverty & the Planet
Read our Executive Director’s Op-Ed on how a global universal income could help extreme poverty. Originally published in Geographical.
Reimagining Conservation Post-Cop16: The Case for a Universal Basic Income
Read Director for LATAM Carlos’ Op-Ed on the need for inclusive conservation strategies in Latin America, and how a UBI could be the answer. Originally published in Common Dreams.
Cap and Share: A Pathway to Just Transition
Read our Regional Campaign Manager, Malama Mwila’s blog on Cap and Share. Originally published on the European Environmental Bureau’s blog.
A Sustainable Global Universal Basic Income Can Be Done. Here Is How.
Read our Campaigns and Operations Director Patrick Brown’s Op-Ed, originally published in Al Jazeera.
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.