Asha-Rose Migiro

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

Life

Migiro studied law at the State University of Dar es Salaam ( UDSM ). In 1992, she received her doctorate at the University of Konstanz in Konstanz when legal scholar Carsten Thomas Ebenroth with a thesis on the economic alliances in Africa's east and south. She then returned to Tanzania, where she took legal tasks. She was also active politically and later oversaw from 2000 as Minister of the subject areas: urban development, gender equality and family / children. In January 2006, she became the first Foreign Minister of their country.

From 2007 to 2012 she was deputy head of the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, an office which the former Secretary-General Kofi Annan had introduced in 1997. He will be succeeded by Mark Malloch Brown Migiro was the third person and after the Canadian Louise Fréchette, the second woman who has held this position. The responsibility of the Vice - Secretary General includes not only administrative and management tasks, especially the development of policy.

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