The People’s Forum on Human Rights and Business…called for an international treaty to impose on states the obligation to police the human rights impacts of the actions of multinational companies. The Forum called for states to establish legal liabilities for human rights violations…I’m not sure we should…Experience suggests that there is unlikely to be overwhelming support from the multinationals themselves (even the progressive ones) for binding and enforceable legal rules that would affect their operations…Even if a treaty was agreed, it is unlikely that many states would want to ratify it…A new response must be found, using new techniques. In the meantime, the existing patchwork of rights and remedies…needs to be harnessed creatively so that those whose human rights have been violated by multinationals can also have the hope of redress and the expectation of accountability…