Global InformationEliana Rubashkyn information
Eliana Rubashkyn | |
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| Born | 25 June 1988 Bogotá, Colombia |
| Other names | Eliana Golberstein,[1] Eliana Galberstein[2] |
| Citizenship | New Zealand |
| Occupation(s) | Pharmacist, chemist, human rights advocate |
Eliana Rubashkyn (born 25 June 1988) is a New Zealand pharmacist and chemist,[3] known for being the first intersex person assigned male at birth legally recognised as a woman with a United Nations mechanism under the international refugee statute. Born in Colombia, Rubashkyn was formerly stateless. [4] She[a] currently works as a programme officer at ILGA world,[5] and as a harm reduction scientist developing human right campaigns of support addressed to LGBTI asylum seekers, refugees and intersex persons around the world.[6]
Rubashkyn's gender was recognised under the United Nations' 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees.[7] Rubashkyn's case attracted international media and legal attention after her mistreatment following her detention at Hong Kong International Airport because of the incongruence between her gender identity and her passport photo, resulting in several years of statelessness in Hong Kong,[clarification needed] and inhumane reclusion into several refuge centers across Yuen Long.[8][9][10]
Rubashkyn moved to New Zealand as a refugee in 2014, and was granted New Zealand citizenship in 2018.[11] In 2023, Rubashkyn was charged with two counts of assault; one count for the physical assault of an unknown victim, and the other count for throwing tomato juice on Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull. Rubashkyn has pled not guilty to all charges.[12]
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- ^ "Ælien Rubashkyn - ILGA World". Archived from the original on 7 September 2021. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
- ^ "ITANZ - Intersex Awareness New Zealand 2019 - Board Members".
- ^ Human Rights Campaign 2014. "Hong Kong recognized Trans woman without Sex reassignment Surgery". Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Misunderstood and stateless in Hong Kong: A transgender woman's nightmare". CNN International. 5 September 2014. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
- ^ "Transgender Refugee goes through hell in Hong Kong". UNHCR. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
- ^ "Hong Kong is 'hell' Transgender postgrad student-turned-refugee struggles to be recognised as a woman". gaystarnews.com. 5 April 2014. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
- ^ "Transgender refugee says NZ paradise". NZ Herald. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
- ^ "Woman accused of throwing juice over Posie Parker pleads not guilty". NZ Herald. Retrieved 7 April 2023.
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