Purna Shova Chitrakar

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.

In 1995 Chitrakar founded Ban Landmines Campaign Nepal (NCBL) to ban on the use, production, transfer and stockpile of landmines. She is the author of the paper Mine-risk Education in Nepal, 2009 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.