Asha-Rose Migiro
Tanzanian politician and UN Deputy-Secretary General
Asha-Rose Migiro (born 9 July 1956) is a Tanzanian politician and diplomat who was the Secretary-General of the United Nations from 2007 to 2012. She was appointed as the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa on 13 July 2012
After serving at the United Nations, Migiro returned to Tanzania and was appointed cabinet minister in the cabinet of Jakaya Kikwete. She later entered the race to become the CCM candidate in the 2015 presidential elections, but lost the nomination to the eventual winner John Magufuli
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edit- Nowhere in the world is a woman safe from violence. The strengthening of global commitment to counteract this plague is a movement whose time has come