A 22-year-old Indian artist is among the three winners of a UN poster competition aimed at raising awareness about nuclear disarmament, with her poster of a peace dove slicing through a nuclear weapon garnering appreciation from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
Anjali Chandrashekar, a New York-based designer and "artivist", won the third prize in UN Poster for Peace contest presented by the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (ODA) to raise awareness of the need for nuclear disarmament.
Titled 'Cutting Barriers through Peace', the poster features a peace dove slicing through a nuclear weapon.
She received her third-prize certificate from Ban Ki-moon at an award ceremony held in United Nations on May 03,2016 .Apart from the three winners, nine honorable mentions were chosen from among more than 4,100 entries representing 123 countries.
Another poster 'Break Free' by the Chennai girl, that shows doves flying out of a bird cage at the top of a nuclear weapon, received an honorable mention.
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