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NGOInternational Union for Land Value Taxation and Free Trade (IU)
Address

Studio 5, St Oswald’s Studios, 82 Sedlescombe Road, London. SW6 1RH

Telephone
Emailoffice@theIU.org
Websitehttp://www.theiu.org/
Background Information

The International Union for Land Value Taxation (IU) was established to "promote permanent peace and prosperity for everyone by re-establishing mankind's natural relationship with land" (IU). It campaigns to address the root causes of poverty and to challenge law and land taxation policies that result in unequal advantage in the market economy. The IU is presently seeking an amendment to section 3 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights to include a reference to land ("Everyone has the right to life, liberty, land and security of person"), arguing that the moral, political and economic conditions of human beings is inextricably linked to the land and that everyone has an equal right to benefits flowing from it. Past supporters of the IU include Anne Turgot, Thomas Paine, Henry George, Leo Tolstoy and Winston Churchill (source: http://www.theiu.org/)

 

Year Created1926
Other Names / Antecedent Bodies
Related Organisations

Various prominent organisations are part of IU's "Network for the Moral Economy" (including War on Want, Amnesty International, Shelter, Friends of the Earth, Liberty, Greenpeace)

KeywordsEquality, discrimination and prejudice; Human rights and civil liberties; Poverty and social exclusion (UK).
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