Public Eye Award

The event Public Eye takes place since 2000 every year as a critical counter-event to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF ) held in Davos.

It is a project of non-governmental organizations from around the world and is coordinated by the Swiss organizations Berne Declaration and Greenpeace Switzerland. By the year 2008 was Pro Natura instead of Greenpeace co-organizer of the action.

Public Eye Award

The Public Eye Awards corporations are honored that behave according to the initiators particular responsibility towards people and the environment. The focus of the Public Eye Awards is thus on the topic of corporate social responsibility since 2005. The reasons listed are those that emerge from the respective speech at the ceremony.

The audience award is determined by online voting. In 2011, more than 50,000 people took part in the vote. In addition to the negative prices, a Positive Award for particularly exemplary behavior was awarded from 2006 to 2009.

Winner

2014

Negative Award:

  • Audience Award: Gazprom, for oil drilling in the Pechora without emergency plan for the prevention and control of oil leaks.
  • Jury: GAP, because the company is reluctant to reform in the textile industry in Bangladesh.

Other nominated companies were BASF, Bayer, Syngenta, FIFA and Glencore Xstrata.

2013

Negative Award:

  • Audience Award: Royal Dutch Shell, for participating in " particularly controversial, risky and dirty oil production projects," including in the sensitive Arctic environment.
  • Jury: Goldman Sachs, because the company " the profits of a few with exploding inequality and impoverishment of wide layers of " pay. In particular, the concealment of the Greek public debt is denounced by using tricks and booking against high fees.

Other nominated companies were Alstom, Coal India, G4S, Lonmin and Repower AG.

2012

Negative Award:

  • Audience Award: Vale for the construction of the Belo Monte dam
  • Jury: Barclays for speculating on food and consequent price increase

Other nominated companies were Tepco, Samsung, Syngenta and Freeport McMoRan -.

2011

Negative Award:

  • Audience Award: Neste Oil for the production of "biodiesel" made ​​from palm oil
  • Jury: AngloGold Ashanti

Other nominated companies were Axpo, BP, Foxconn and Philip Morris.

2010

Negative Award:

  • People: Roche
  • Global: Royal Bank of Canada
  • Swiss Roche
  • Greenwash: Water mandate of the Global Compact

Other nominated companies were GDF Suez, Farner PR, the IOC and ArcelorMittal.

2009

Negative Award:

More nominated for the awards companies were BNP Paribas, Nestlé, UBS and Tesco.

As in 2008, went in 2009 Year of Global and People Award to the same winners. The winner was Newmont Mining for their project in eastern Ghana. Public Eye accuses the company, it plans to build a gold mine there, without paying attention to the social and environmental impacts of this project. For the construction of the mine around 10,000 small farmers would lose their land, which - would be contaminated by cyanide and so barren - as the rivers. Thousands of people had to be forcibly relocated without adequate compensation. The company paid so far only local village heads high sums of money. In addition, a protected forest area would be cleared, which would endanger the local fauna and flora.

Positive Award:

  • Freddy Lozano and Jairo Quiroz Delgado, VR members of the union Sintracarbon.

The Positive Award, which was to be awarded to dedicated employees of a company in 2009, went to two union leaders of the trade union Sintracarbon from Colombia for their commitment to better working conditions in the largest coal mine in South America, El Cerrejón. 2006 by a collective agreement for the workers was reached, negotiated the renewal since November 2008. In addition, they also reached that in resettlement compensation to be paid.

2008

Negative Award:

  • People: Areva
  • Global: Areva
  • Swiss Glencore

The Audience Prize and the Global Award was presented to the French state-owned company Areva, awarded for the concealment of the true states of health of the miners, the mine for uranium for its subsidiaries Somaïr and Cominak in northern Niger. Public Eye criticized the hospitals would take HIV cancer, which has its cause in the radioactive contamination of air, water and soil diagnose. Glencore was "excellent" for their opaque business practices and unacceptable worker rights in Colombian coal mines with the Swiss Award.

Positive Award:

  • Hess Natur

The Positive Award went to the largest German natural fabrics mail order Hessnatur for the social and environmental commitment of the company that pays attention to fair trade its raw materials.

2007

Negative Award:

Bridgestone received the Award for the Public Eye loud catastrophic working conditions for a subsidiary in Liberia. The workers have to live in mud huts, the children have already go to work (child labor ) and unprotected handling of highly toxic materials. Novartis received the Award for the patenting of its cancer drug imatinib, which they stopped the Indian generic production. This could be the world tens of thousands of people the drug no longer afford, which had slowed the progression of their deadly blood cancer - the Novartis product was ten times more expensive.

Positive Award:

  • Coop ( Switzerland )

Coop got the Positive Award for its commitment to organic products and farming in Switzerland.

2006

Negative Award:

  • Environment: Chevron
  • Taxes: Citigroup
  • Social: The Walt Disney Company

Chevron has had 30 years to flow for cost reasons in Ecuador highly toxic waste into the Amazon, instead of doing it - as usual at this time - to pump back into the earth and refuses today to pay for the consequences in the environment and people's health. Citigroup received his award for, according to Public Eye, " unscrupulous support of tax evaders. " Walt Disney produced his toys in China, does not reveal the names of the manufacturers, protecting them so before controls.

Positive Award:

  • Euzkadi union SNRTE, German and FIAN

The Positive Award was awarded for the use of the three organizations against a closure of a Continental tire factory in Mexico, where they were able to put all their demands.

2005

Negative Award:

  • Human Rights: Dow Chemical
  • Environment: Shell
  • Labour Rights: Wal- Mart
  • Tax: KPMG

Dow received the Award for the rejection of any responsibility for the Bhopal disaster in 1984, the city's residents suffer from the consequences to this day. Dow is fused with the responsible for the misfortune companies. Shell received the Award for gas flaring in Nigeria in residential areas, through the day and night. Wal- Mart refuses responsibility for the working conditions at its suppliers and wants to know anything. And the KPMG got her award for encouraging their customers to engage in aggressive tax avoidance.

List of ironic awards Pechora Sea Freeport-McMoRan Axpo Holding United Nations Global Compact International Olympic Committee Melanie Winiger Uranium mining Child labour Coop (Switzerland) Amazon River Germanwatch Food First Information and Action Network Continental AG Walmart
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