...[Our] workshop brought together three key constituencies – civil society, government and corporations – to discuss the many elements that make up the intersection of business and human rights. We primarily focused on two important international mechanisms that when followed, protect communities from dangerous human rights violations: The UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights (GPs) and The Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs). For three day we had civil society, governments and businesses – all with different perspectives – exchanging ideas, suggestions and remedies to protect human rights...[P]articipants agreed that civil society can play a critical role in holding governments and businesses accountable for their responsibilities to protect human rights.