Abstract

This article uses the example of the feminist movement in Latin America and the Caribean to analyse the way in which the UN and its allied organisations neutralise anti-establishment social movements by urging then to « participate » in its project of global « good governance ». By studying the « population politics » of international institutions and the question of micro-credit schemes for women, we see how the UN presented itself as an « ally » to women and managed to recruit a part of the feminist movement to its own project, even though it was carrying out policies that were absolutely disastrous for women, and in particular for the poor women of the Southern hemisphere