This notebook describes how two US nongovernmental organizations developed training to increase the capacity of companies to build more effective relationships with indigenous peoples.  First Peoples Worldwide and Business for Social Responsibility sought to bring the rights of indigenous peoples to the forefront and encourage businesses to do the same.

This notebook describes how one organization (ICAR) in Romania was able to pressure the government to accept its moral and legal obligation to provide care to torture victims.  The group had international support but they recognized that it was the states responsibility to rehabilitate this socially marginalized group.