The “The Future of CSR: CSR Asia’s CSR in 10 project” carried out by CSR Asia in 2012...saw human rights rise up the agenda in terms of an important issue for companies and their stakeholders in the Asia region...[The] region is incredibly diverse many...high risk’ countries in terms of human rights issues are in the region...While only a year since their endorsement, the Guiding Principles provide a framework for business to manage these complex issues...For Asian companies operating in Europe and for European companies operating in Asia it will be important to consider their operations in light of the rolling out of the Guiding principles. Part of the challenge for companies is the lack of publicly available impact assessments and sharing of practices in the area of human rights. There are no doubt important lessons learned from both European and Asian companies and we hope that both the good practices as well as the challenges can be more readily shared.