A number of authors on this blog have followed the progress of the human rights and business agenda at the United Nations over the past few years (e.g. here and here). The work of the UN Special Representative on Business and Human Rights is coming to a culmination as his mandate expires in 2011. With this in mind, the Special Representative has published draft Guiding Principles for the United Nations Protect, Respect and Remedy Framework for consultation. The draft guiding principles build upon the work of the Special Representative so far and they seek to substantiate the basic protect, respect and remedy framework that has been developed. There are a number of innovative aspects of the Guidelines which will be highlighted below.