Short Summary: The advocacy position paper is an outcome of a meeting of the members of the International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN) from the seven regions of Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Latin America, North America and the Pacific. The purpose of the meeting, and its outcome - the position paper - was to set out IGTN's stand on the World Trade Organization, before its fourth Ministerial Meeting in Doha, Qatar, November 2001. According to IGTN, the scope of the WTO should be reduced to trade issues, ensuring food security from the household to the national levels, and restoring the power of governments to regulate their monetary and financial systems. After outlining their damaging effects on food security and local agriculture IGTN also calls for the removal of Trade-related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). The Network also calls for the removal of the Trade-related Investment Measures (TRIMS), since they undermine governments' ability to regulate foreign investment and to empower local investors. For a copy of this publication send an e-mail to IGTN: secretariat@coc.org, URL:www.genderandtrade.org