Public Eye nominations 2012 - Company responses & non-responses
For the annual "Public Eye Awards", which the organisers (Greenpeace Switzerland & Berne Declaration) say are for the "worst cases of contempt for the environment and human rights", six companies were nominated in January 2012.
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited the companies to respond to this press release detailing the reasons for their nominations:
- Barclays response [DOC]
- Freeport-McMoRan response [PDF]
- Samsung response [DOC]
- Syngenta response [DOC]
- TEPCO declined to respond
- Vale response [DOC]
Blog on the company responses: "We Are Not That Bad, Really!", Kosmos 9, 19 Jan
On 27 January 2012 it was announced that Vale had "won" the Public Eye Award 2012, and that a separate award had also been conferred on Barclays, by a jury comprising members of Greenpeace and the Berne Declaration. See press coverage of this announcement here:
- Public Eye award singles out mining company Vale, Barclays, Saabira Chaudhuri, Guardian (UK), 27 Jan 2012
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Company non-response
18 January 2012
Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) did not respond to: Greenpeace Switzerland & Berne Declaration nominate 6 companies for 2012 "Public Eye Awards for the worst cases of contempt for the environment and human rights".
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- This is a non response from the following companies: Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO)
Company response
17 January 2012
Response by Freeport-McMoRan: Greenpeace Switzerland & Berne Declaration nominate 6 companies for 2012 "Public Eye Awards for the worst cases of contempt for the environment and human rights".
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- This is a response from the following companies: Freeport-McMoRan