Medha Patkar is an Indian social and environmental activist known for her work with people displaced by the Narmada Valley Development Project and her advocacy for human rights. She is one of the founders of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save the Narmada Movement), a social movement that aims to provide project information and legal representation to the thousands of residents of the Narmada valley displaced by the dams, and the National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM), an agglomeration of more than 150 groups opposed to the resource conflicts arising out of India’s globalization and liberalization policies in the 1990s.
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