Writing: Journal articles

Ramona continues to disrupt and reshape scholarship in the fields of international women’s rights, law-making for women, migration & trafficking and women’s reproductive rights through her journal publications.

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  1. Ramona Vijeyarasa, Comparing Whose Laws? Interrogating Biases in Comparative Law and Scholarship Through the Lens of Domestic Violence Workplace Leave, International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, Vol 40(2) (2024), 249 – 274.

  2. Ramona Vijeyarasa, Gendered Harms and the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence: A Comparative Assessment of Emerging Legislative Practice, Notre Dame Journal on Emerging Technologies (JET), Vol. 25(1) (2023), 114-161.

  3. Ramona Vijeyarasa, Book Review: “Frontiers of Gender Equality; Transnational Legal Perspectives” edited by Rebecca J. Cook, Asian Journal of International Law, (2023), 215-216.

  4. Ramona Vijeyarasa, Book Review: “Global Gender Constitutionalism and Women’s Citizenship” by Ruth Rubio-Marín, European Journal of International Law, (2023), 737-743.

  5. Tanya Jakimow, Mario Gomez, Viyanga Gunasekera, Aasima Yanty, Nadine Vanniasinkam, Aida Fitri, Ramona Vijeyarasa and Yumasdaleni, Broken Pathways to Politics: Clearing a Path from Grassroots to Representative Politics, Journal of Women Politics & Policy, (2023), 1-18.

  6. Janini Shanthosh, Keerthi Muvva, Mark Woodward, Ramona Vijeyarasa and Anna Palagyi, Assessing the Reach, Scope and Outcomes of Government Action on Women’s Health and Human Rights: A Protocol for the Development of an International Women’s Rights Dataset, Journal of Qualitative Methods, Vol. 21 (2022), pp. 1-10.

  7. Ramona Vijeyarasa, Flamer-Caldera v Sri Lanka: Asia-wide implications of an essential evolution in CEDAW’s jurisprudence, Asian Journal of International Law, (12)(2) (2022), p. 1-11.

  8. Ramona Vijeyarasa, Does law matter? Identifying what makes gender-responsive legislation effective for advancing gender equality, New York University Journal of Legislation and Public Policy (24(3) (2022), pp. 671-723.

  9. Ramona Vijeyarasa, When women lead: Legislating against gender-based violence in Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Philippines and Sri Lanka, The Australian Journal of Asian Law (23)(2) (2022), pp. 27-44.

  10. Ramona Vijeyarasa, Three decades of CEDAW Committee General Recommendations: A roadmap for domestication, reporting and stronger accountability for women’s rights, The Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law (25) (2022), pp.797-829.

  11. José-Miguel Bello y Villarino and Ramona Vijeyarasa, ‘International Human Rights, Artificial Intelligence and the Challenge for the Pondering State: Time to regulate?’ Nordic Journal of Human Rights (2022) https://doi.org/10.1080/18918131.2022.2069919

  12. Ramona Vijeyarasa and Mark Liu, Fast fashion for 2030: Using the pattern of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to cut a more gender-just fashion sector, Business and Human Rights Journal, 7 (2022), pp. 45-66.

  13. Ramona Vijeyarasa, Women’s movements under women presidents: bringing a gender perspective to the legal system, Gender and Development, 29(2/3) (2021), pp. 569-591. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/business-and-human-rights-journal/article/fast-fashion-for-2030-using-the-pattern-of-the-sustainable-development-goals-sdgs-to-cut-a-more-genderjust-fashion-sector/326A2604C7FB89EAAC2B931B98F4C6A0

  14. Ramona Vijeyarasa, Quantifying CEDAW: Concrete tools for enhancing accountability for women’s human rights, Harvard Human Rights Journal, vol. 34 (2021), pp. 37-80. https://harvardhrj.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2021/05/34HHRJ37-Vijeyarasa.pdf

  15. Ramona Vijeyarasa, Gender equality in Australia: Looking for the silver bullets in the short and long term, Australian Journal of Human Rights, 27(1) (2021), pp. 170-77. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1323238X.2021.1932407

  16. Ramona Vijeyarasa, What is gender-responsive legislation? Using international law to establish benchmarks for labour, reproductive health and tax laws that work for women, Griffith Law Review, vol. 29(3) (2021), pp. 334-350. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10383441.2020.1853900?journalCode=rlaw20

  17. Anaïs Tobalagba and Ramona Vijeyarasa, Engendering regulation of artisanal and small-scale mining: Participation, protection and access to justice, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 41(10) (2020), pp. 1635-1652. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01436597.2020.1783995

  18. Ramona Vijeyarasa, Women's absence in Sri Lankan politics: Lessons on the effectiveness and limitations of quotas to address under-representation, Women's Studies International Forum, 81 (2020), pp. 102371-102371. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277539519304832

  19. Ramona Vijeyarasa, CEDAW’s General Recommendation No. 35: A Quarter of a Century of Evolutionary Approaches to Violence against Women,’ Journal of Human Rights, 19(2) (2020), pp. 153-167. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14754835.2019.1686347

  20. Ramona Vijeyarasa, Women, work and global supply chains: The gender-blind nature of Australia’s modern slavery regulatory regime, Australian Journal of Human Rights, 26(1) (2020), pp. 74-92. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1323238X.2019.1701265

  21. Ramona Vijeyarasa, A missed opportunity: How Australia failed to make its Modern Slavery Act a global good practice example, Adelaide Law Review, 40(3) (2020), pp. 857-865. https://law.adelaide.edu.au/ua/media/1410/ALR_40%283%29_11_Vijeyarasa_Web.pdf

  22. Ramona Vijeyarasa, Making the law work for women: Standard-setting through a new Gender Legislative Index, Alternative Law Journal, 44(4) (2019), pp. 275-280. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1037969X19861751

  23. Ramona Vijeyarasa, A move in the right direction? The Model Law against Trafficking in Persons and the ILO Operational Indicators, International Migration, 57(1) (2019), pp. 177-191. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/imig.12504

  24. José-Miguel Bello Villarino and Ramona Vijeyarasa and The Indicator Fad: How Quantifiable Measurement Can Work Hand-in-Hand with Human Rights — A Response to Sally Engle Merry’s The Seductions of Quantification, NYU Journal of International Law and Politics 50(3) (2018), pp. 985-1020. https://www.nyujilp.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/NYI304.pdf

  25. Ramona Vijeyarasa, Women at the Margins of International Law: Reconceptualizing Dominant Discourses on Gender and Transitional Justice, International Journal of Transitional Justice (2013), pp. 1-12. http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/UTSLRS/2013/17.html

  26. Ramona Vijeyarasa, Stigma, stereotypes and Brazilian soap operas: Roadblocks to ending trafficking in Vietnam, Ghana and Ukraine, Gender, Place and Culture, 20(8) (2013), pp. 1015-1032. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0966369X.2012.759905

  27. Ramona Vijeyarasa and José-Miguel Bello Villarino, Modern day slavery? A Judicial Catchall for Trafficking, Slavery and Labour Exploitation: A Critique of Tang and Rantsev, Journal of International Law and International Relations, 8(2) (2013), pp. 36-61.  http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/UTSLRS/2012/22.html

  28. Ramona Vijeyarasa, The Cinderella syndrome: Economic expectations, false hopes and the exploitation of trafficked Ukrainian women, Women’s Studies International Forum 35 (2012), pp. 53-62. http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/UTSLRS/2012/22.html 

  29. Ramona Vijeyarasa, Trafficking and human rights: European and Asia-Pacific Perspectives by Leslie Holmes and The international law of human trafficking by Anne T. Gallagher, Australian Journal of Human Rights, 17(1) (2011), pp. 139-143. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1323238X.2011.11910898

  30. Ramona Vijeyarasa, The impossible victim: Judicial treatment of trafficked migrants and their unmet expectations, Alternative Law Journal, 35(4) (2010), pp. 217-222. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1037969X1003500406

  31. Ramona Vijeyarasa and Richard Stein, HIV and Human trafficking-related stigma: Health interventions for trafficked populations, Journal of the American Medical Association 304(3) (201), pp. 344-345. http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/UTSLRS/2010/5.html

  32. Ramona Vijeyarasa, Exploitation or expectations? Moving beyond consent in prostitution, trafficking and migration discourse, Women’s Policy Journal of Harvard, 7 (2010), pp. 11-22. http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/UTSLRS/2010/3.html

  33. Ramona Vijeyarasa, Scrutinizing Vietnam’s progress towards gender equality, Development (Special Issue on New Institutions for Development), 53(1) (2010), pp. 91-97. https://www.proquest.com/docview/216915109

  34. Ramona Vijeyarasa, The State, family and language of “social evils”: Re-stigmatising victims of trafficking in Vietnam,” Culture, Health and Sexuality¸ 12(1) (2010, pp. 89-102. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3229604

  35. Ramona Vijeyarasa, Review of Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Health and Rights, World Medical and Health Policy Journal, 2(4) (2010), pp. 121-123.

  36. Ramona Vijeyarasa, Putting Reproductive Rights on the Transitional Justice Agenda: The Need to Redress Violations and Incorporate Reproductive Health Reforms in Post Conflict Development,” New England Journal of International and Comparative Law, 15(1) (2009), pp. 41-62. http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/UTSLRS/2009/4.html 

  37. Ramona Vijeyarasa and José-Miguel Bello Villarino, The international implications of the European consensus against the death penalty: The obligation of the EU to protect European citizens abroad from execution, Journal of European Studies, Universitas Indonesia, 4(2) (2008), pp. 58-73 (2008). http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/UTSLRS/2008/1.html

  38. Ramona Vijeyarasa, Facing Australia’s history: Truth and reconciliation for the stolen generations, Sur International Journal on Human Rights (Special Issue on Transitional Justice), 7(4) (2007), pp.127-150. https://sur.conectas.org/en/facing-australias-history