Campaigns and Publications
At the Swanwick Conference in England in 1949 - as the United Nations was settling its Universal Declaration of Human Rights - the IU published a principle and policy pamphlet that later came to be known as its Declaration of Human Rights on Equal Freedom. This Declaration was translated into many languages, and subsequently amended and reaffirmed; most recently in 2001.
In 2008 the IU launched a global online petition to reform the UDHR by amending its Articles 3 and 29 to include "a universal right to a place on earth".
The IU is in the course of publishing the 'Economics of Abundance' series of monographs, authored by the British economist Fred Harrison. The first volume, published in 2008, titled The Silver Bullet, deals with global poverty.
Through its UN representatives the IU supports LVT implementation projects around the world, including South Africa, Nigeria and Vanuatu. The IU has contributed to the development of the Land Rights and Land Value Capture online course and training program created under the auspices of the UN's Global Land Tools Network.
The IU has produced (2008) two documentary short films on human rights and poverty in southern Africa.
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