Birgitta Dahl
| Birgitta Dahl | |
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| Speaker of the Parliament of Sweden | |
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In office 3 October 1994 – 30 September 2002 |
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| Monarch | Carl XVI Gustaf |
| Preceded by | Ingegerd Troedsson |
| Succeeded by | Björn von Sydow |
| Minister for the Environment | |
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In office 12 March 1986 – 4 October 1991 |
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| Prime Minister | Ingvar Carlsson |
| Preceded by | Ingvar Carlsson |
| Succeeded by | Olof Johansson |
| Minister for Energy | |
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In office 8 October 1982 – 27 February 1990 |
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| Prime Minister |
Olof Palme Ingvar Carlsson |
| Preceded by | Carl-Axel Petri |
| Succeeded by | Rune Molin |
| Personal details | |
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20 September 1937 Råda, Härryda Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden |
| Political party | Social Democrat |
| Alma mater | Uppsala University |
Rut Birgitta Dahl (born 20 September 1937) is a Swedish former politician of the Social Democratic Party.
Birgitta Dahl was born in Råda, Härryda Municipality, Västra Götaland County. She earned a B.A. at Uppsala University in 1960. During her studies she was politically active in the Uppsala Student Union. She worked as a senior administrative officer at the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency from 1965 to 1982, as a course assistant at the Swedish North Africa Institute from 1964 to 1965, at the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation from 1965 to 1967, and as chairman of the Swedish Committee for Vietnam from 1971 to 1977. From 1980 to 1981 she served as a Swedish delegate to the United Nations.
Dahl was elected a Member of Parliament from 1969 to 2002 (until 1970 as a member of the lower house), Minister for Energy Affairs from 1982 to 1990, Minister for the Environment from 1986 to 1991, and Speaker of the Parliament from 1994 to 2002. Since 2005 she is chairman of the Swedish section of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
From 1971 to 1977, while also serving as a Member of Parliament, Dahl was chairman of the Swedish Committee for Vietnam (from 1975 known as the Swedish Committee for Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia). During the period of 1975 to 1979, when Cambodia was ruled by the government of Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge party, approximately 1.7 million Cambodians were killed through the combined result of political executions, starvation, and forced labor (see Khmer Rouge period (1975–1979). In 1976, Dahl participated in a debate in Sveriges Radio about the situation in Cambodia, where she said among other things:
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