Preventing and addressing violence and atrocities against minorities 2014, para. 39
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The responsibility of Governments for the protection of human rights and prevention of violence extends to regulating the activities of non-State actors. Enterprises and business actors have been involved in violence affecting minorities, for example, against minority groups which occupy lands or territories that are of value for agricultural development, natural resource exploitation or national development projects. Minorities have often found themselves the victims of intimidation and violence by actors wishing to take control of those lands and resources. In some cases, national and/or international businesses instigate violence against minority communities with the complicity or agreement of the Government: for example, to gain access to the land or resources located where minority communities live.