Peter Sutherland is Special Representative of the Secretary General of the UN for Migration and former Director General of the WTO.
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Peter Sutherland
Commentaries by Peter Sutherland
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Migration Is Development
LONDON – In September 2000, the United Nations Millennium Development Goals rallied the international community behind a shared vision. The …
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David Cameron’s Euro-Nemesis
LONDON – Unlike some in Britain’s Conservative Party, Prime Minister David Cameron has not previously given the impression of being obsessed…
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The Bilateral Threat to Free Trade
ISTANBUL – The Doha Round of global trade talks appears to have died this year, almost without a whimper. While a small portion of the proje…
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Taking Back Immigration
LONDON – Within hours of US President Barack Obama’s re-election last month, a powerful belief took hold: overwhelming support from Latino v…
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Europe’s Solidarity Imperative
LONDON – When Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, publicly proclaimed that the ECB would do “whatever it takes” to ens…
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Europe’s Immigration Challenge
LONDON – Europe faces an immigration predicament. Mainstream politicians, held hostage by xenophobic parties, adopt anti-immigrant rhetoric …
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After the Promised Land
LONDON – At the height of the Arab uprisings last spring, many Europeans were gripped by nightmare visions of a tsunami of migrants crashing…
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The Tragedy of Trade Blindness
LONDON – The Doha Round of global free-trade negotiations is on the brink of collapse after ten years of talking. This is a tragedy in the m…
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Europe’s Test in North Africa
LONDON – Europe’s reaction to the historic revolutions in North Africa has vacillated between exhilaration and fear. The natural instinct to…
Migration Is Development
Jeffrey Zwerner: In terms of ideals, I agree that migration benefits our global populous and that it should and might be an emerging fundamental human right. From the standpoint of politics, practicality, the surviva…