Asha-Rose Migiro

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Asha-Rose Migiro (2009)

Asha-Rose Mtengeti Migiro (born July 9, 1956 in Songea , Ruvuma Region , Tanzania ) is a Tanzanian lawyer and politician. She is the UN Special Envoy for HIV / AIDS in Africa and was Deputy UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon from 2007 to 2012 .

Life

Migiro studied law at the State University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM). In 1992, she was at the University of Konstanz in Konstanz legal scholar Carsten Thomas Ebenroth with a thesis on the economic alliances in Africa's east and south doctorate . She then returned to Tanzania, where she headed the Constitutional and Administrative Law Section at the UDSM and later the Civil and Criminal Law Section. She later became politically active and from 2000 onwards, as minister, was responsible for the areas of urban development, equality and family / children. In January 2006 she became her country's first female foreign minister.

From 2007 to 2012 she was Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki Moon , an office established by former Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 1997. As the successor to Mark Malloch Brown , Migiro was the third woman and after the Canadian Louise Fréchette the second woman to hold this position. In addition to administrative and management tasks, the Vice-Secretary General's area of ​​responsibility primarily includes development policy.

Asha-Rose Migiro published several articles on women's rights, freedom of the press and the flight of Africans to Europe.

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