Purna Shova Chitrakar

Purna Shova Chitrakar
Chitrakar at the 4MSP mobilisation workshop, 2013
NationalityNepalese
Occupation(s)Activist, Writer
Known forN-Peace Award recipient
SpouseSurendra Pandey

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]

References

  1. ^ "Purna Shova Chitrakar". N-PEACE. Archived from the original on 25 January 2021. 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. Archived from the original on 16 July 2020. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
  4. ^ "Asian women peace advocates receive awards for their leadership". UNDP. Retrieved 12 September 2020.