The program in the field of business and human rights focuses on environmental issues, business practices (extractive industries and the textile-garment-shoes-leather (TGSL) sector), and human rights. This focus is driven by three main issues. First, the extractive and TGSL sectors have been found to commit numerous human rights violations because human rights have not yet become a mainstream concept in the policies and practices of these businesses. Second, the state—including the executive and legislative at both the national and local levels, as well as the judiciary—lacks the capacity to adequately protect the rights of affected civil society groups (local communities, indigenous peoples, and workers) in the formulation and implementation of policies. Third, civil society (local communities, indigenous peoples, and workers) is tangibly and adversely affected by the activities of extractive businesses and TGSL, yet at the same time faces the risk of civil and criminal legal action....