Last week, the latest report under my mandate as Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary General on business and human rights was released in advance of the June session of the U.N. Human Rights Council…My new report describes how the U.N. “Protect, Respect, Remedy” framework has already enjoyed considerable uptake, interacting with a range of processes well beyond the United Nations itself…A significant part of the new report focuses on states…At the same time, companies themselves have a responsibility to respect human rights, which exists independently of states…My final recommendations in June 2011 will include a set of guiding principles for the operationalization of the framework’s distinct yet complementary and interactive elements and processes. And they will also include options for what might follow the mandate.