464:. Bennedsen was appointed chair of the Municipal Affairs committee of the Folketing from 1987 to 1988 and both the parliament's Naturalisation Committee and Indigenous Rights Committee in 1998. She insisted that Denmark's foreign policy not be restricted in wake of immigration to the country in the late 1990s. She stood down as chair of the Danish Association for Nordic Collaboration in 1999. Bennedsen was a member of the Road Safety Commission from 1995 to 2001 and was appointed its chairman during 2000. She stood down as a member of the Folketing on 20 November 2001 when
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in 1964, and she served as general secretary of the Danish Youth
Council from 1968 to 1971, becoming the first woman to hold the position. She also performed as a priest on special occasions from thereon. In the same period, Bennedsen was a member of the Social Democrats' management committee for the
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on 9 January 1975. Between 1974 and 1979, she was chair of The Danish
Consumer Council, working for consumer interests in quality and their viewpoints, and she served as vice-chair of the Parliamentary Social Democratic Party from 1977 to 1979. Bennedsen sat on the
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Association for International Cooperation's management committee between 1969 and 1971. Between 1968 and 1971, Bennedsen served as a member of UNESCO's national commission. She was a member of
376:, Denmark. She was the daughter of the Hans Harald Koch, the Doctor of Divinity and former Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs, and the theologican minister Bodil Thastrum Koch. Bennedsen had three elder siblings and she was brought up in
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