Do you know exactly what the UN Global Compact and its principles on the human rights role of business is all about? Or have you heard of the Special Representative of the Secretary General on the issue of human rights and transnational orporations and other business enterprises? Have you ever visited the website of the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre? The debate is still largely being held in specialist circles. However, this is beginning to change, primarily: unlike ten years ago when it wasn’t even clear whether business nterfaced directly with the subject of human rights at all, it is no longer the case that everything is simply open to debate.