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18 Jan 2012

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Public Eye nominations 2012 - Company 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...: * Barclays response - Rejoinder from World Development Movement to Barclays' response * Freeport-McMoRan response * Samsung response - Rejoinder from SHARPS to Samsung's response * Syngenta response * TEPCO declined to respond * Vale response Blog following company responses: "We Are Not That Bad, Really!", 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.

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Vale & Barclays receive Public Eye awards for "worst cases of contempt for environment & human rights"

Public Eye nominations 2012 - Company responses & non-responses