Your article on business and human rights sees a “storm” where in fact there is healthy and productive intellectual debate (“Doing the wrong thing”, October 27th). The letter to which you refer recently sent from NGOs to John Ruggie reaffirms strong support for the work of Mr Ruggie's mandate as United Nations special representative on business and human rights. While there are multiple views on short-term priorities, broad agreement exists around the objective of improving the human-rights performance of companies.