laying the groundwork to prevent and remedy human rights violations by multinational companies. The Commission held the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions(hereafter 'APF') on business and human rights, where it adopted the Statement on Asia Pacific National Human Rights Institutions on Business and Human Rights. The statement covers businesses’ responsibility to respect human rights, governments’ compliance with international treaties and standards on business and human rights, and active measures to be taken by NI, in which business activities of multinational companies can have an impact on human rights. The forum served as a good opportunity to share interest in business and human rights in Korea and beyond, and discuss in full scale the United Nations (hereafter 'UN') ‘Protect, Respect and Remedy’ Framework for Business and Human Rights. The Commission found that a homeless with disability was not provided support necessary to exercise the right to defend him/her in legal proceedings, and delivered its opinion that the court needed to consider such circumstances, in order to remedy the victim’s violated rights. The Commission reviewed the partial amendment to the Wage Claim Guarantee Act to protect human rights of vulnerable labor groups, and recommended that it should be reasonable to develop standards for deciding who are subject to assistance in order to make sure that there are no loopholes in protecting their rights. It also researched culture, art and sports industries to observe current status of labor market structure, labor demand and supply system, and industrial workers’ perspectives on labor, and analyzed their overall human rights conditions as well as the industrial structures that are designed to produce non-regular workers. The result is expected to shed meaningful light on setting directions of human rights policies for non-regular staffs engaging in specialized industries and identifying future projects. The Commission also made prompt responses to social issues including an ad-hoc investigation on forced 26 Part I. Introduction