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Six major global companies have been shortlisted by a comittee of experts from Berne Declaration and Greenpeace Switzerland for the 2012 Public Eye on Davos-award

Since 2000 this shaming and naming-award goes to companies for their negative actions with regard to human rights and/or the environment.

This year's nominees are Barcleys Bank for their role in food speculation, Swiss company Syngenta for marketing poisonous herbicide, Samsung for manifacturing with toxic materials, Japanese Tepco, Brasilian Vale dam-construction in the Amazonas and US mining company Freeport with their mining activites in West Papua.

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