Eliana rubashkyn
Eliana Rubashkyn | |
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| Occupation(s) | Pharmacist, Chemist, Human Rights Advocate |
| Website | soyeliana |
Eliana Rubashkyn (born June 25, 1988) is a Colombian - New Zealand pharmacist, chemist and blog activist, well known internationally for being the first transgender woman recognized under the international law as woman under the UN declaration that rules the stateless and refugees according with the Refugee Convention of 1951 [1], Eliana is currently living in New Zealand her country of asylum, still she remains stateless, her case caught the international attention after becoming stranded in Hong Kong because of the lack of congruence with her gender identity and her passport[2][3][4],
Personal life
Eliana Rubashkyn was born in Colombia, educated in a jewish-catholic religious environment, her mother came from Ukraine former Soviet Union to Colombia in the 70's, her father met her in the Soviet Unión and travel with her to Colombia.
She got the degree as Pharmacist in the National University of Colombia [5] she speaks fluently five languages, however, because of the conditions of the acceptation of her gender identity in Colombia she decided to start her transition in Taiwan, after being granted with a scholarship in Taipei Medical University; one year later, the hormonal transition changed her physical appearance and the Taiwan Immigration authorities required her to update her passport to the closest Colombian consulate to be allowed to renew the second year of her master studies. She travel to Hong Kong, However when she arrived to the Chek Lap Kok's immigration sextion she was detained over 8 months because her appearance did not match with her passport[6][7]
Facing deportation, after the mistreatment she suffer in the Chep Lap Kok's Airport detention center, and with the support of Amnesty International and the UNHCR, she was granted with the refugee status, however that led her to become a de facto stateless refugee, and because Hong Kong is not a current signatory of the refugee convention of 1951, Eliana was not recognized as refugee and her citizenship was withdrawn. In 2013 the UN sent a petition to the international community to find a third country to resettle her due to the lack of protection for LGBT people and refugees in that special administrative region and China[8][3]
Her case caught the international attention specifically in Southeast Asia and Colombia where the transgender people still suffer of persecution for their gender identity. Also in New Zealand her actual country of residence.[9][10][11]
On December 16th of 2013 the UN set a resolution in Eliana's case and after that she was recognized as woman under the UNHCR refugee system, under this recognition she became as well as the first transgender woman recognized as woman in the Peoples Republic of China, and Hong Kong without a sex reassignment surgery [12][13]
Finally in may 2014 New Zealand accepted her case as refugee and granted asylum[14] an gave her a universal recognition of her gender, making her case the first in the world where the gender of the person is recognized transnationally and internationally. [15][16]
References
- ^ Human Right Campaing 2014. "Hong Kong recognized Trans woman without Sex reassignment Surgery".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Misunderstood and stateless in Hong Kong: A transgender woman's nightmare". CNN International. Retrieved 2014-09-05.
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- ^ "Hong Kong is 'hell' Transgender postgrad student-turned-refugee struggles to be recognised as a woman". gaystarnews.com. Retrieved 2014-05-20.
- ^ http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11316450 The New Zeland Herald
- ^ "The Colombian transgender woman stranded in Hong Kong". Revista Semana. Retrieved 2014-03-22.
- ^ "Transgender refugee goes through hell in Hong Kong to be recognised as woman". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2014-03-03.
- ^ "Stuck in limbo the tragic story of the transgender refugee Eliana Rubashkyn". Time Out Hong Kong. Retrieved 2014-03-22.
- ^ "Cơn ác mộng của người chuyển giới ở Hong Kong". Hot News Vietnam. Retrieved 2014-05-20.
- ^ "Transgender refugee stranded in Hong Kong describes struggle to be recognized as woman". Shanhaiist. Retrieved 2014-04-03.
- ^ "La historia de Eliana, la joven transgénero que está atrapada en Hong Kong". Diario El País. Retrieved 2014-03-29.
- ^ "Transexual reconocida como mujer en China". Retrieved 2014-01-01.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|autor=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ "行街紙隱去性別未變性博士准住女病房". Apple Daily Hong Kong. Retrieved 2014-01-02.
- ^ "En libertad la transgénero presa en Hong Kong". Revista Semana. Retrieved 2015-01-05.
- ^ "Eliana Rubashkyn. First case of International gender recognition trough asylum". Fundacion Triangulo. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
- ^ "Transexual colombiana atrapada en Hong Kong recibe refugio en Nueva Zelanda". RCN. Retrieved 2015-02-01.