Over his lifetime, in various capacities, as Attorney General and later Foreign Minister of Guyana, as the Caribbean’s spokesman in international trade and economic negotiations, as a voice of small developing countries, as a nemesis of UDI and apartheid in Southern Africa, as Secretary General of the Commonwealth of over 50 nations, as an advocate of the messages of change of the many international Commissions on which he served, in the national, regional and global contexts of his life – Shridath Ramphal spoke and wrote copiously. What follows are one hundred plus items of that life of service. Two great globalists of the 20th Century summed up best these contributions:
We should not underestimate Mr Ramphal”. Barbara Ward, 1979.
have chosen the whole world as their theatre”. Nelson Mandela, 1990
1950 – King’s Counsel
The Journal of the Faculty of laws Society, King’s College, London.
1951 – King’s Counsel
The Journal of the Faculty of laws Society, King’s College, London.
1966 – Debate in the National Assembly
1966 – Individual Freedom and Public Interest
1966 – Debate in the National Assembly on Second Reading of the National Security (Miscellaneous Provisional Bill)
1967 – Building The Foundations
1967 – Role of the UN
1967 – Safeguarding Human Rights – The Guyana Contribution.
United Nations Human Rights Seminar on the Effective Realization of Civil and Political Rights at the National Level
1968 – The Representation of the People
Adaptation and Modification of Laws Bill
1968 – Human Rights In Guyana
1968 – Guyana/Venezuela Relations
1968 – International Non-Government Organizations Conference on Human Rights
1968 – Development or Defence
The Small State Threatened with Aggression
1969 – Friendship with Integrity
Guyana/Surinam Relations
1969 – A Time for Peace-Keeping
International Security and the Small State
1970 – Decade of Decision
The Caribbean in the 70s
1970 – A Search for Understanding – Patterns of Conflict Resolution.
Statements and Papers relating to Recent Developments in Guyana/Venezuela Relations and Guyana/Surinam Relations
1970 – Peace Justice Progress
The international Imperatives
1970 – A Search for Understanding
Patterns of Conflict Resolution
1970 – Speech of the Hon. S.S Ramphal Attorney General and Minister of State
1971 – Dialogue of Unity
A Search for West Indian Identity
1971 – Strengthening Old Ties – Forging New Links
1971 – West Indian Nationhood
Myth, Mirage or Mandate?
1971 – The Charter’s Mandate – Fulfillment Through Internationalism
Statement delivered in the General Debate of the 26th Session of the UN General Assembly
1972 – A Peaceful, Just and Habitable Planet
New Dimensions of Environment
1972 – Protocol of Port-of-Spain
Speech of the Hon. S.S Ramphal Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guyana
1973 – The Prospect for Community in the Caribbean
An address delivered at the Royal Commonwealth Society, London.
1973 – Just Enlightened and Effective Arrangements
New Approaches to Relations With The European Economic Community
1973 – The Need For Answer
Whither Internationalism?
1973 – New Dimensions of Preventive Diplomacy
The Security Council in Panama City
1974 – An ideology of Change
Towards an Egalitarian World Community
1974 – The Energy Catalyst
Toward A New International Economic Order
1975 – The ACP/EEC Negotiations
A lesson in Third World Unity
1975 – Remembering to Score
1975 – The Commonwealth in World Affairs
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs
1975 – A wider Unity
1975 – To Care For Caricom
1976 – Keynote Address at the International Conference of Federalism
1976 – The other world In This One
1978 – What Next? A Mandate for the Developing Counties
1979 – International Co-operation and Development: the Role of Universities
1980 – Nkrumah and the Eighties
Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Lectures
1981 – Service of Thanksgiving for the life and work of Malcolm Macdonald, P.C., O.M.
1981 – Sovereignty or Solidarity
The Thomas Callander Memorial Lectures
1982 – No Time to Lose: An Overview of Crisis
North-South Dialogue Revised Approaches to Industrialization in Developing Countries and International Trade
1983 – “Some in Light and Some in Darkness”; the long Shadow of Slavery
150th Anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery Act (1833) and the death of William Wilberforce
1983 – Words are as Water…
International Conference on Sanctions Against Apartheid Sports
1985 – Towards A Global 2000
The Inaugural New Sarum Lecture
1985 – Caribbean Alternatives
Centre for Caribbean Studies University of Warwick
1985 – The End of the Beginning: Apartheid in Crisis
Annual Conference of the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa
1985 – A World Turned Upside Down
1985 – The Trampling of the Grass
The Inaugurail Silver Jubilee Lecture of the Economic Commission for Africa
1985 – Rekindling Nehru’s Internationalism
1986 – Roots and Reminders
Reflections on Slavery, Indenture, Apartheid— and some personal conjunctures
1986 – For the South, a Time to Think
Paper delivered at South-South 11; Charting the Way Forward
1987 – The Environment and Sustainable Development
1987 – Making Human Society a Civilsed State
The 11th Corbishley Memorial Lecture
1987 – The Second Indira Gandhi Memorial Lecture
1987 – Peace – An ambition Beyond Armistice
1988 – “Let the slave go free…” Britain, the Commonwealth and the Common Law
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1988 – The South African Crisis: Why the Bell of Apartheid Tolls for Everyone
Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia
1988 – A Heritage of Oneness
Inaugurating a Commemorative Series of International Conference The Genesis of a Nation
1988 – “The Black must be discharged
Race Relations, The Common Law and the Commonwealth The Kapila Fellowship Lecture 1988
1988 – Compulsions for Excellence – Shadows and Reality
Installation as Chancellor of University of Guyana
1988 – No Island is an Island
1988 – One World To share
1989 – Endangered Earth
Inaugurating the Cambridge Lectured on Environment and Development: “Our Common Future?’
1989 – The State of North-South Relations
The Johns Hopkins University, Bologna Center
1990 – Keeping the Faith
From Kingston to Kuala Lumpur and Beyond A valedictory address by the Commonwealth Secretary-General
1990 – European Unity – Caribbean Challenges
1991 – “To Be a Canoe”
To the Twelfth Meeting of the conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community
1991 – The Universe Requires an Eternity
1992 – Time to Act
1992 – A Fragile World
1993 – Where Is the time-bomb ticking
1993 – A Commonwealth if the Caribbean for the twenty first century
1994 – Global Governance In the Global Neighborhood
Booklet 35 – Waging Peace Series Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
1995 – Global Governance and New Dimensions of Human Security
Sir John Crawford Memorial Lecture, International Centers Week
1995 – Global Governance
The Second Global Security Lecture
1996 – World Language Opportunities challenges responsibilities
1996 – Our Global Neighborhood – facing the twenty first century
1997 – The West Indies in the wider world Compulsions of regional engagement
1998 – West Indies Space in the 21st Century
The 50th Anniversary of UWI
2002 – A Jamaican Voice In Caribbean and World Politics
2004 – Caribbean Responsibilities in 2004
2005 – Can the Rule in the Commonwealth be Secure in the Lawless World?
50th Anniversary Commonwealth Law Conference
2005 – Jamaica In A Globalised World
2006 – Ramphal denounces US Global Ambitious
2006 – Commonwealth must stand against Lawless World
2006 – Retirement of Hon P J Patterson as PM of Jamaica
2006 – Sharing Memory Through Globalisation
2006 – Sonny gets Blue over Yankee Supra-Nationalism
2006 – The International Rule of Law
2006 – An End To Otherness
2007 – Montreal Conference On Genocide
2008 – Rough handling Federation
2009 – Wither the Caribbean
2009 – Caribbean Diplomacy
2009 – The Paradox of heritage and hesitancy
2011 – Inaugural G. Arthur Brown Memorial Lecture
Vision and Leadership: The Infinite Unity of Caribbean Needs