Today the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre is launching a “Company action platform” that illustrates the many forms this action is taking – from Tesco’s efforts to help tackle forced labour in the Thai fishing industry down its supply chain, to Brazilian mining company Vale’s creation of an ombudsman’s office to receive human rights complaints.Too many companies are still barely engaging, however. Competition for natural resources is intensifying. Conflicts over working conditions and land use are likely to increase. In this context it is essential that a critical mass of companies takes human rights seriously, rather than considering them a nice to have addition to corporate responsibility programmes...