Can anything concrete come out of the report that Professor John Ruggie prepared for the June session of the UN Human Rights Council? After all, the report offers just a “framework” for business and human rights, not a program of action. Yet the report is far from a compilation of abstractions. I find that it contains a bundle of specific policy ideas that, if taken seriously by the Council and a few major UN members, will improve the protection of individuals, organizations, and weak OECD governments against what Ruggie calls “corporate-related human rights harm.”...