On March 31st 2024, Atlas - the global political movement uniting humanity for survival - launched a political campaign to challenge the 2026 UN Secretary-General selection process.
Climate change, unregulated technologies, wars, nuclear weapons, dictatorships, pandemics, and poverty all represent global survival threats that are currently not being addressed. Due to its undemocratic and outdated setup, the United Nations lacks the competencies, leadership, and legitimacy needed to tackle these issues. Even its leader, the Secretary-General, is chosen through an opaque process controlled by a few countries that seek to uphold the status quo.
Atlas’ co-founder, Colombe Cahen-Salvador, is leading the campaign as the candidate for survival. She intends tol challenge the status quo, refuse to appease member states for approval and instead seek to represent We, The Peoples.
Ms. Cahen-Salvador is not new to such endeavours. In 2021, together with Atlas’ co-founder Andrea Venzon, she tested the willingness of people to participate in global political processes with a flash campaign that brought a people-backed Secretary-General candidate to the attention of the United Nations General Assembly.
This campaign is not a stunt this time though, as Cahen-Salvador says: “We don’t have the luxury of time or blind hope anymore. We must act fast, decisively, and radically. That’s why I decided to head Atlas’ campaign to challenge the selection process of the United Nations Secretary-General. Through this campaign, we can get millions of people to unite for survival, push for urgent action and shock the status quo to reform the outdated UN system.”
Throughout the next two campaign years, Atlas will work at grassroots level to mobilise one million people to support this campaign. In addition, Atlas is now preparing a global Summit to be hosted on July 20-21, where the political program of the campaign will be officially voted upon.
About Atlas - Atlas is the global political movement uniting humanity for survival. Founded in 2020, it has over 25,000 supporters in 134 countries and has run several global campaigns to tackle the existential threats the world is facing. Atlas will run for office worldwide to push its survival agenda.
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