Satnam Kaur has been associated with non-governmental organisations for more than a decade, including The Other Media, a broad-based platform in support of people’s movements in India, and Biblio, the literary magazine. Satnam has worked to provide secretarial, administrative as well as accounting assistance in these organisations. She has also been a research assistant, handling and sorting raw data and doing quantitative analysis for various studies on the Bhopal gas victims and for the Pakistan India Peoples Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD). Since 2003, she has also been associated with Saheli, a women’s collective that has been working on issues of violence against women, women’s reproductive health, communal violence and its impacts on women for more than three decades.

Namati’s Environmental Justice Program, India, works in collaboration with the Centre for Policy Research.