…The Global Compact...marks its 10th anniversary this year…Today, we are getting closer to a tipping point when private-sector leaders from all industry sectors will recognize their companies need to engage proactively with human rights issues and demonstrate they are doing so in practice...A number of firms…have adopted human rights policy statements…[including] Barrick Gold, Encana, Kinross, Nexen, PetroCanada and Talisman. The…Business & Human Rights Resource Centre…keeps a running list of such policies...What can be done to encourage more companies to make a commitment to human rights? First, advocates and companies that have already taken steps to integrate concern for human rights into business practices need to make the case to other business leaders…Second, more business leaders need to understand that respecting human rights also makes good business sense…Finally, companies need to know that, at the international level, the increasing expectation to respect human rights is reflected in the work of the UN special representative on business and human rights, Professor John Ruggie