Every seat in the world belongs to a government. We propose one that belongs to a person.
The United Nations is an organisation of states, and it was built that way on purpose: its members are governments, and a government speaks for everyone inside its borders whether or not they agree. The People of the Earth Organization starts from the other unit — the person.
TPEO does not exist yet. There is a name, a mark, a domain and the principle below. Nothing on this page describes an organisation that has been founded, and nothing here asks you to join, pay or send anything.
Member
A state. 193 of them hold a seat in the General Assembly.
Member
A person. One human being, one membership, wherever they happen to live.
Voice
The government speaks for everyone within its borders — including those who did not elect it and those it is currently prosecuting.
Voice
Nobody speaks on your behalf by default. Representation is delegated by you, and it can be withdrawn.
Weight of a vote
One state, one vote — the same weight whether it holds eleven thousand people or a billion and a half.
Weight of a vote
One person, one vote. Population is not a multiplier and not a discount.
The stateless
Millions of people hold no citizenship at all. In an assembly of states there is no seat that corresponds to them.
The stateless
Membership does not depend on a passport, because the unit is a person and not a nationality.
Who is bound
Resolutions bind states, and a state can leave, refuse or veto on behalf of its population.
Who is bound
Nothing here binds a state. This is a body of opinion and of record — its force is that it can be counted, not that it can compel.
What one vote is worth
Two numbers, no rhetoric: the General Assembly has 193 members, and your country holds exactly one of those seats. Enter how many people live in it.
This is arithmetic on a structure, not a criticism of anyone’s conduct. The UN is an organisation of states by design, and for the things states must settle between themselves that design is the right one. The arithmetic only shows what it cannot do: give a person a seat of their own.
Five principles, written before anything else
They are published now so that they can be held against us later, when there is something to hold.
Where this stands
Plainly, so that nobody mistakes an intention for an institution.