ABSTRACT
The largest network linking nongovernment organizations (NGO) that work with poor women in Latin America, Red de Educacion Popular entre Mujeres de America Latina y el Caribe (REPEM) has been a fundamental participant in the development of educational projects within these organizations. REPEM members in the countries mobilized and coordinated efforts in different sectors: with other NGOs, local and national networks, local governments, business leaders, the academic establishment, and government institutions that support micro-enterprises. One hundred and fifty-seven production projects were presented, representing 6,995 rural and urban women. The framework of women’s rights and the need for justice in social gender relations has been greatly reinforced by the conferences and social summits promoted by the United Nations: Vienna, Cairo, Copenhagen, Beijing, and Hamburg. The cycle of conferences appears then to be associated both with this phenomenon of globalization and with the broadening of concepts of rights and citizenship.
