Latest Commentaries
Sunday 7 December 2025
All of Sir Ronald's commentaries up to 4 December 2025 can be read in the "Commentaries" section of this website. The most recent one is entitled, "The UN is fading - we should worry".
... "As budgets tighten, the UN is being reshaped—often unintentionally—into a narrower institution. It will still debate, negotiate, and set norms, but without adequate financing, its capacity for field operations, development support, and humanitarian action will decline.
That is not the UN that the world needs. In disaster recovery, health crises, climate resilience, arms control, and the defence of small-state sovereignty, we rely on the UN to deliver support.
If insolvency forces the UN into retreat, the weakest and smallest states will be the first to feel the vacuum. And vacuums rarely remain empty; they are filled by the interests of the powerful".
See the entire commentary in English and Spanish in the commentaries section.
Latest Videos
Tuesday 2 December 2025
Latest Video 1
On 22 November 2025, the University of Guyana awarded Sir Ronald Sanders the Degree of Doctor of Law (Honoris Causa). This was his acceptance speech to the graduands:
www.youtube.com/v/CoAu7jlF0xY
Latest video 2
The 2025 OCCBA Lecture on "Has the rule of law been replaced by Might Is Right"?
In this powerful 2025 Distinguished Lecture for the Organisation of Commonwealth Caribbean Bar Associations, Sir Ronald Sanders examines the future of sovereignty, justice, and small-state survival in an increasingly coercive world.
Delivered at the University of Guyana to a hybrid audience of more than 600, and dedicated to Caribbean statesman Sir Shridath Ramphal, the lecture explores how international law can still restrain power and protect the vulnerable — if nations choose to uphold it.
It is a challenge to all who believe justice still matters in a world drifting toward raw power.
www.youtube.com/v/2SDvIje0bxQ