Ramona brought together Australian 60-minutes journalist, Jeff McMullen and the Reverend Bill Crews to amplify the visibility of homeless people in Australia during Anti-Poverty Week

Ramona was a volunteer legal intern at the Coalition against Trafficking in Women: Asia-pacific in Manila where she held build cases against human trafficking and supported the visit of the then UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, Sigma Huda.

Ramona volunteered at the Marrickville Legal Centre, supporting their work on the legal rights of young people.

Ramona was a volunteer legal intern at the Centred for Battered Women’s Legal Services in New York, where she helped women who were victims of domestic violence petition for asylum in the US under the Violence against Women Act.

Ramona joined a team of young scholars who worked with the then UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict prepare an amicus curiae brief for the International Criminal Court’s prosecution against now convicted war criminal, Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the first person ever convicted by the Court.

Ramona provided leadership over Vietnam’s multi-NGO reintegration network, supporting victims of trafficking to return home and promoting a reduction in the stigma suffered by these female victims.

The UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women undertook its 3rd ever inquiry into the impacts of a contraception ban in Manila City on the lives of women and their families, based on a submission co-authored by Ramona and a team at the Center for Reproductive Rights, the Philippines-based Task Force CEDAW Inquiry and the International Women’s Rights Action Network Asia-Pacific (IWRAW).

Ramona wrote the first-ever study on the stigma suffered by victims of trafficking, resulting in a UNODC-supported change to how the Government of Vietnam supports survivors of trafficking as they return home.

Ramona helped built the capacity of the women living in the floating villages of Cambodia to better understand and fight for their rights to sexual autonomy and bodily integrity.

Ramona worked in solidarity with the young women of Liberia to challenge the abuse of the right to an education and to call for accountability for those perpetrators within the education system demanding sex in exchange for grades (“sextortion”).

Ramona joined the leading thinkers of global women’s rights NGOs, including WomanKind at the UN Commission on the Status of Women to promote women’s roles in peace-building in Afghanistan, Liberia, Nepal, Pakistan and Sierra Leone

Ramona helped to co-design the women’s rights program for ActionAid’s implementation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Ramona stood in solidarity with the Nicaraguan women of Matagalpa, calling for an improvement in the quality and quantity of public services to make the streets safer for urban women.

Ramona walked a candlelight vigil with the women and children of Cabo, in Pernambuco, Brazil, taking back their streets and reclaiming their rights to a violence-free life.

Ramona met with women and male MPs, former cabinet members, women activists and scholars in the Philippines and Indonesia to better understand how we can advance women’s leadership and law-making in Sri Lanka and Indonesia.

Ramona created the Gender Legislative Index, the first-ever IT-based tool that uses human evaluators and machine learning to assess the gender-responsiveness of domestic laws.

Ramona invited the CEDAW Committee to prioritise the stigma suffered by victims of human trafficking in its General Recommendation on Trafficking in Women and Girls in the Context of Global Migration

Ramona made recommendations to the Australian Parliament’s Review of the Workplace Gender Equality Act, with the majority of her recommendations accepted.

Ramona’s research on gender-responsive law-making was the anchor for a motion at the Tasmanian Legislative Council that passed and created its first-ever Gender and Equality Audit Committee for Tasmanian State Parliament.

Ramona joined an Expert Group to advise the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), including the Committee’s Chair, in the development of its new General Recommendation No. 40 on women’s leadership

Ramona trained 20 women leaders from Vietnam, building their capacity to bring a gender-lens to their advocacy for law and policy reform, specifically in relation to gender-based violence and workplace inequality in Vietnam