Marie-Paule Djegue Okri, an agronomist and agro-ecology consultant from Côte d'Ivoire, was awarded the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for her work in gender equality. The award, founded on the centenary of Beauvoir’s birth in 2008, is given to a person or association that defends and promotes women's freedom.
Okri co-founded the Ivorian League for Women's Rights four years ago as a response to "bad politics”, and says that women everywhere should have the right to freedom.
