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Gunilla von Hall

Sweden

Biography

Gunilla is a Swedish foreign correspondent and journalist for the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper in Geneva. Gunilla has covered conflict around the globe including in Iraq, Bosnia, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Based in Geneva for more than 20 years, her topics range from humanitarian issues, international politics to health and world trade. She has a bi-weekly column in Svenska Dagbladet about international affairs. Gunilla has been published in the Swedish anthology “The War & The Truth” and her stories have been selected for “Good Swedish Journalism.” She was President of the United Nations Correspondent’s Association in Geneva (ACANU) from 2011 until 2013.

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“You have to think of protecting the victims, the people you interview, the people telling you what’s going on…because we leave and they stay.”

Gunilla von Hall