The Financial Times last week reported that Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and five other pressure groups have indicated they would oppose the adoption next June by the UN Human Rights Council of the final draft recommendations on business and human rights from Professor John Ruggie...In recommending that the principles should not be adopted...Amnesty International and others run the risk that there would be nothing equivalent (or at least not for some time), despite the willingness from companies to act now and agree for certain principles and guidelines of Human Rights' international (soft) law to apply. It is important that the international business community is given the opportunity to reflect on Amnesty International's proposal and its potential effects...