Updates

Campaign Update 🇺🇳 | The next UN chief is about to be chosen. Let’s break the process

November 27, 2025

Dear friends, The UN officially kickstarted the selection process of its next Secretary General, and it is as undemocratic, opaque and broken as ever. While it fails to stop the genocide in Gaza, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Sudan’s famine, the climate crisis and rising...

Too Young, Unqualified and Radical: Why I’m Running to Lead the United Nations

October 09, 2025

By Colombe Cahen-Salvador “Stop fixating on Gaza and Ukraine, the United Nations is doing great. You shouldn’t criticize it,” one of the highest UN officials told me back in March 2024. I just announced my campaign, surrounded by top diplomats in a marble-covered...

🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT: New Global AI Control Policies Approved by Atlas Members

May 23, 2025

We just took a major step forward in the fight to control artificial intelligence before it controls us. On May 11, our members approved three groundbreaking new AI policies. These are now officially part of the Atlas Survival Bill, our political platform for the...

Campaign Update 🇺🇳 | The UN is failing. Become a Spokesperson to fix it

April 24, 2025

Today is the International Day for Multilateralism and Diplomacy for peace. Yeah… I know… It’s not going great. The United Nations is failing to protect peace, safeguard our future, or stand up for human dignity.

Campaign Update 🇺🇳 | One Year into the Campaign to Reclaim the United Nations and Make It Work for Us All

April 01, 2025

One year ago today, I took a deep breath and announced my campaign to become United Nations Secretary-General: the system is broken, and no world leader or diplomat was stepping up to fix it. The UN, meant to prevent catastrophe, has instead become a...

Campaign Update 🇺🇳 | Finding hope in the most unlikely places

February 18, 2025

By Colombe Cahen-Salvador After a week in the US, I left with something unexpected: hope. I know, it’s not what you expected to hear considering Trump is looming in the background.

How the UN can stand with Afghan women & girls, with Dr. Habiba Sarabi!

December 09, 2024

By Colombe Cahen-Salvador “The Taliban’s goal is clear: they want to erase women entirely. No school, no work, no voice.” These words from Dr. Habiba Sarabi were spoken during a town hall I had the honour of hosting last week, and capture the stark...

Campaign Update 🇺🇳 | Join a former Afghan Peace Negotiator tomorrow & find out how to stop dictators!

December 03, 2024

This is Colombe Cahen-Salvador's UN campaign newsletter Dear friends, Massive crimes are happening, and we can do something about it. I’m serious, we can force our governments to cut support with genocidal maniacs! Let’s make things easy: Countries are killing people, and our...

How the UN can protect freedoms, with Gina Romero!

November 21, 2024

By Colombe Cahen-Salvador "While Azerbaijan has been preparing to host COP29, recent months have been marked by an alarming wave of arrests and the setting of criminal cases against human rights offenders in the country, including journalists and independent media. (...) So while COPS should be an...

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

October 03, 2024

This is our Colombe Cahen-Salvador's UN campaign newsletter 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...