These regional consultations are not country visits organized to investigate the situation of human rights at the national level but are intended to benefit from different regional perspectives of stakeholders not based in North America or in Europe, and who are without the means to participate in the consultations organized there. Each of these consultations will follow the same format, focusing on the three principles to protect, to respect and to remedy and potential ways, challenges and opportunities in operationalizing them. A final open session will give the opportunity to participants to discuss business and human rights related issues of particular importance for them.