As institutional investors and research analysts, we are keenly interested in your work as Special Representative... International legal experts and human rights groups have noted the particular importance of your mandate to identify core standards of corporate responsibility and accountability with regard to human rights... Many companies themselves have acknowledged that they want to know the "rules of the road", and that a minimum set of standards would reduce uncertainty... The United Nations Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights...can be a useful tool in this regard, as a compendium of internationally recognized norms. [refers to positive steps by Nike, Gap, Bristol-Myers Squibb]