Updates
Campaign Update 🇺🇳 | I’m closing my campaign for UN Secretary-General
September 22, 2026
Dear friends, Two years ago, I announced I was running to become UN Secretary-General. Not because I could win. No government was ever going to nominate me, and I was never going to shape my platform to appease one. I did it because someone...
Read MoreCampaign 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...
Read MoreToo 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...
Read More🚨 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...
Read MoreCampaign 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.
Read MoreCampaign 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...
Read MoreCampaign 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.
Read MoreHow 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...
Read MoreCampaign 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...
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