This report summarises the main outcomes of a meeting of practitioners in the field of business and human rights which focused on progress under the second pillar of the mandate of the United Nations Special Representative on Business and Human Rights, Professor John Ruggie; namely progress in developing tools and systems to help realise the “corporate responsibility to respect” human rights. The central proposition was that a series of principles might be developed in order to guide future development of such tools to ensure greater consistency and quality...