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If global poverty is going to be tackled effectively there needs to be economic and social reform at a fundamental level.
The International Union for Land Value Taxation (The IU) has launched a petition to amend the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The amendments acknowledge the natural economic laws which the teaching of Henry George made evident.
These are:
- that personal security is dependent on access to land
- that it is a principal duty of all citizens to pay back to the community for the benefits they receive from holding property in land.
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Article 3.
"Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person, the enjoyment of which is dependent on the right of access to land. Land may be accessed indirectly, by sharing in the benefit of the enhanced use of land that accrues within a community when use right are assigned to others. The right to land will be satisfied when that sharing is equitable and proportionate to the benefit."
Article 29.
"(1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible. The life of the community is reliant on the performance of those duties, principal among which is the payment to the community of the value of the land benefits received from it.... "
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For further information and to add your name to the petition go to: http://www.unpetition.org/
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