The issue of business and human rights is not new...What’s new is that the most recent wave of globalisation has created a massive gap between the scope and impact of economic factors and actors, and the ability of societies to deal with the consequences. Enlightened corporate leadership has come to recognise that caring for people and planet, in addition to being the moral imperative of our time, must become a core business mission in order to secure the sustainability of open markets and the corporate forms that constitute the very basis of globalisation...I am gratified by how far we have come in a relatively short period of time. Looking at the challenges we still face, I am also humbled by how much more needs to be done – and by the fact that time is of the essence. The broader business community must follow the path charted by Unilever and other leading companies and act upon our collective responsibility to make globalisation work for all – because if it doesn’t, in the end it will work for none.