About Birgitta Dahl
Rut Birgitta Dahl was a Swedish politician of the Social Democratic Party. Dahl was a Member of Parliament from 1969 to 2002. She served as Minister for Energy from 1982 to 1990, as Minister for the Environment from 1986 to 1991, and as Speaker of the Parliament from 1994 to 2002. She was the chairman of the Swedish section of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) between 2005 and 2011. The 1969 elections resulted in the election of many young MPs which was then uncommon, and Dahl belonged to the first representatives of the Protests of 1968 and second-wave feminism to be elected to the Parliament. Dahl created controversy when she refused to believe the reports of atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge regime. When the Social Democratic Party won the 1982 Swedish general election, she was appointed Minister for Energy.
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