This year, ALT for damerne's women’s prize went to a dedicated woman who has fought to spotlight one of society’s dark sides: Prostitution.
Charlotte-Odile Poulsen knows firsthand what prostitution does to one’s body and mind; she now works as a writer and lecturer.
According to the prize-winner prostitution is not a product of women’s free choice. Women without the mental ballast to choose their own future will continue allowing themselves to be abused as long as sex can be bought. That’s why Charlotte-Odile Poulsen is working to make sex clients liable to criminal prosecution.
Charlotte-Odile Poulsen received the Prize of Honour at a reception in Copenhagen earlier today. Hanne Høiberg, editor-in-chief, proclaimed: “To come forward with your own private life and past demands courage. We respect that and support her fight from a feministic point of view.”
Every year ALT for damerne, the leading women’s magazine on the Danish market, awards its women’s prize. The prize, bestowed for 23 consecutive years now, comes with the sum of DKK 25,000.
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