...it would be helpful to companies to have [relevant international standards] distilled into a single set of principles – a set of principles which companies can use as a basis for their own policies, principles which can be visible to investors and other stakeholders, and, most importantly, visible to the market which can then judge and use its influence on non-financial behaviour. The recently developed United Nations human rights Norms for companies provide such a distillation. [refers to Union Carbide (part of Dow), Cape plc, Shell]