This article describes the evolution of the business and human rights debate leading up to the Ruggie Framework and then takes the concrete case of Texaco in Ecuador – the impact of its operations and the struggle to hold the company accountable – to illustrate the emerging consensus around business and human rights and its implications...This “dry run” with the Framework is intended to highlight the utility of having a common baseline – even in its incipient state – to consider concrete cases of corporate human rights abuses, with an eye to the eventual development of global standards on business and human rights...