Updates

Press Release | Atlas releases its programme for the 2026 UN Secretary-General Selection Process

September 05, 2024

On September 5th, 2024, Atlas - the global political movement uniting humanity for survival - officially released its political programme for the 2026 United Nations Secretary-General selection process. The programme, first adopted at the Atlas Summit in July 2024, addresses global survival threats such...

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...

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,...

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...

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....

Reforming the selection process of the UN Secretary-General

May 07, 2024

As part of Atlas' campaign to elect the next United Nations Secretary-General, we partnered with HEC Public Law Clinic to develop a proposal on how to reform the UN Secretary-General Selection Process. Kostia Malanyuk-Lelan and Ludovic Sol developed this proposal after exploring feasible, fair, and inclusive...

#SurvivalSunday | 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...

UN Campaign Update #1

April 06, 2024

Our 1st week of United Nations campaign is almost over, and so much has happened! So here’s a quick and crispy recap with next steps. But first,

Press Release | Atlas is challenging the 2026 UN Secretary-General Selection Process

April 01, 2024

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...

We have news: we are running to become UN Secretary General 🇺🇳

March 31, 2024