PUBLIC EYE PEOPLE’S AWARD GOES TO VALE

More then 88,000 people participated in the voting for the worst company of the year. Thank you for your participation! The winner of the Public Eye People's Awards is VALE with 25'042 votes. The winner of the Global Award is BARCLAYS. Read more about the results here, also take a look at the fotos of the awards ceremony.

Follow the campaigns against the nominated corporations on the websites of the nominating organizations.
Barclays: World Development Movement, Vale: Justiça nos Trilhos, Tepco: Finance Green Watch, Samsung: SHARPS, Syngenta: Pesticide Action Network North America, Freeport: Indonesia Human Rights Committee

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  • Vale

    In the midst of Amazonian rainforest Vale is constructing the Belo Monte dam with devastating consequences for the region's unique biodiversity and indigenous tribes.

  • 25'042 votes
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  • Tepco

    Against its better judgement, Tepco, Japan’s largest energy company, grossly neglected the structural safety of its atomic power plants in order to cut costs.

  • 24'245 votes
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  • Samsung

    In its factories, Samsung uses banned and highly-toxic substances without informing and protecting its workers. The result: cancer.

  • 19'014 votes
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  • Barclays

    Barclays, banking giant and the world’s fastest-growing food speculator, drives up global food prices at the expense of the poorest.

  • 11'107 votes
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  • Syngenta

    Despite being banned in Europe Syngenta markets its herbicide Paraquat in the Global South. Thousands of farmers have already died due to the use of the product.

  • 6'052 votes
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  • Freeport

    For 45 years the US-mining corporation Freeport McMoran pollutes with its mine the environment in West Papua. Those who raise their voice get tortured or killed.

  • 3'308 votes
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