The WTO and the free trade agenda in general need to be better brought in line with the Beijing Platform for Action (BFPA), according to a paper that provides the notes of an event on 'Women's Rights and the Multilateral Trading System: the Politics of Gender Mainstreaming at the WTO'. The aim of the event was to offer some background for discussion, to raise some questions around gender and trade, to present some of the approaches from the International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN), and to hear from representatives from country missions, the UN, WTO, and the international NGO community. The paper says that after 1995, many in the global women's movement have supported gender mainstreaming initiatives in order to assess and integrate gender concerns into legislation, policies and programs at all levels, but that questions arise as to whether this is working.