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Campaign Update 🇺🇳 | How the UN could stop wars ... if rebuilt

October 03, 2024

Dear friends,  Peace and security are the core purposes of the United Nations, and we must strive for them! By uniting, challenging current power structures, and electing a new generation of leaders, we can ensure humanity’s survival and prosperity. And this is more needed...

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Campaign event | "How To Regulate AI through and for Democracy" Consultation

October 03, 2024

On September 22nd, 2024, Atlas grassroots consultations to hear from the people of New York and the world what they want the United Nations to do when it comes to regulating artificial intelligence. Through a three-hour-long event, we learnt, debated, and agreed on a...

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UN Campaign Update 🇺🇳 | I am heading to a Major UN Conference, and I Want Your Ideas

September 19, 2024

Dear friends,  For the next 7 days, I’ll be in New York City for a crucial phase of Atlas’ campaign for United Nations Secretary-General. Starting today and running through Monday, the United Nations is hosting a high-level meeting, the Summit of the Future, aimed...

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UN Campaign Update 🇺🇳| How to end genocides

September 04, 2024

Dear friends,  September marks the time for a new beginning. For change. And we need it more than ever. Over the last months, world events have gone from bad to worse, day after day. However bad they get, the good news is we already...

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Campaign event | Let's talk about how to make the UN accountable to the people.

August 30, 2024

By Colombe Cahen-Salvador   "You cannot solve today's problems with yesterday's solutions" said Dr Oby Ezekwesili. I’ve never heard a more fitting description of the massive challenges the United Nations is facing. I recently had the privilege of hosting a townhall with Dr. Oby Ezekwesili,...

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Atlas Summit 2024

July 23, 2024

This weekend, we held our Annual Summit to officially kickstart our electoral work. In short, we will work to enter national and local parliaments to ensure humanity quells survival threats, as soon as possible! I was lucky to open the summit, and wanted to...

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My UN 🇺🇳 Campaign Update: if it's broken, do you fix it?

May 23, 2024

Dear friends, A while ago, I announced my campaign for United Nations Secretary-General. I vowed to keep you in the loop about the campaign,thinking and what's happening at the UN. So here it comes. Below, you can find a recap of my time in...

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Blog | At the UN Civil Society Conference, how can we still accept a system plagued by discrimination between first and second-class nations?

May 09, 2024

By Colombe Cahen-Salvador, Atlas' co-founder and candidate for UN Secretary-General The United Nations is under fire from everyone, everywhere. Those believing in the rule of law are appalled by its inability to uphold it in Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, or the Democratic Republic of Congo....

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Campaign event | How can the UN🇺🇳 best serve the people of Kenya?

May 06, 2024

Survival Sundays are monthly radical grassroots consultations to harness ideas to solve the most urgent threats of our times. They are a core campaign activity of our bid to become UN Secretary-General: the United Nations is too remote, isolated and out of touch with...

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