Purna Shova Chitrakar

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Purna Shova Chitrakar
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Chitrakar at the 4MSP mobilisation workshop, 2013
NationalityNepalese
OccupationActivist, Writer
Known forN-Peace Award recipient
Spouse(s)Surendra Pandey

Purna Shova Chitrakar is the Nepalese founder of Ban Landmines Campaign Nepal (NCBL), and recipient of the N-Peace Award in 2011.[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] In 2011 Chitrakar was one of inaugural recipients of the N-Peace Award. The same year Nepal was declared free of landmine fields.[4]

References[]

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