Purna Shova Chitrakar
Purna Shova Chitrakar | |
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| File:4MSP Lusaka 2013 ©CMC (9967354346).jpg Chitrakar at the 4MSP mobilisation workshop, 2013 | |
| Occupations | Activist, Writer |
| Known for | N-Peace Award recipient |
| Spouse | Surendra Pandey |
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Purna Shova Chitrakar is an activist, columnist, writer, Nepalese founder of Ban Landmines Campaign Nepal (NCBL), and recipient of the N-Peace Award in 2011. She is currently the Director of NCBL.[1]
In 1995 Chitrakar founded Ban Landmines Campaign Nepal (NCBL) to ban on the use, production, transfer and stockpile of landmines.[2] She is the author of the paper Mine-risk Education in Nepal, 2009[3] and Aadha Akash. She has published articles on mine action, politics, and social discourse, in various journals and newspapers. In 2011, Chitrakar was one of the inaugural recipients of the N-Peace Award. That same year, Nepal was declared landmine free.[4]
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