For the annual "Public Eye Awards", which the organisers (Greenpeace Switzerland & Berne Declaration) say are for the "worst cases of corporate human rights abuses and environmental misdeeds", seven companies were nominated in January 2013.

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited the companies to respond to this press release detailing the reasons for their nominations:

• Alstom response [DOC]
• Coal India did not respond
• G4S response [PDF]
  • Rejoinder from John Grayson & Adri Neiuwhof in openDemocracy to G4S response
  • We invited G4S to respond to this rejoinder and it referred us to its earlier response
• Goldman Sachs did not respond
• Lonmin response [PDF]
• Repower did not respond
• Shell declined to respond

On 24 January 2013 it was announced that Shell had "won" the Public Eye Award 2012, and that a separate award had also been conferred on Goldman Sachs, by a jury.