...[I]n some respects, the response [to Michael Edwards' "Philanthrocapitalism: after the goldrush"] - for those of us working at the intersection of civil society, business and governance - must be "guilty as charged". But there is also an almost unseemly unbalance in this critique. After all, initiatives such as the publication by leading companies (following Levi Strauss's lead) of their "terms of engagement" - which declare some responsibility for the conditions of workers in companies they neither own nor manage - has improved the conditions of millions of workers. The leadership of Anglo- American in addressing the challenge of HIV/Aids among its workforce has both saved many lives and inspired a generation of similar public-private partnerships. The Body Shop, though in the end ill-fated economically, pioneered what became a generation of businesses aligned with the principles of human rights that the governments and legal systems were failing effectively to enforce.