Business and Human Rights: Further Steps Toward the Operationalization of the “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework

This is a progress report submitted in follow-up to A/HRC/8/5. Section I illustrates the Special Representative’s working methods in operationalizing and promoting the “protect, respect and remedy” framework. The following three sections summarize his current thinking on the three pillars and the synergies among them, pointing towards the guiding principles that will constitute the mandate’s final product.