Purna_Shova_Chitrakar

Purna Shova Chitrakar

Purna Shova Chitrakar

Nepalese peace activist

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.[1]

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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 had her articles on mine action, politics and social discourses published in various weekly and bi-monthly newspapers. In 2011 Chitrakar was one of inaugural recipients of the N-Peace Award. The same year Nepal was declared free of landmine fields.[4]

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  1. [1]
    "Purna Shova Chitrakar". N-PEACE. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
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    "Purna Shova Chitrakar". Changemakers. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
  3. [3]
    Chitraker, Purna Shova (2009). "Mine-risk Education in Nepal, 2009". The Journal of ERW and Mine Action. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
  4. [4]
    "Asian women peace advocates receive awards for their leadership". UNDP. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
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