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The Berne Declaration (EvB) and Greenpeace Switzerland have awarded the Public Eye Jury Award to American clothing giant GAP for their continuous refusal to contribute to sweeping and effective reforms in the textile industry. The Public Eye Awards shine a light on the current and most serious cases of human rights violations and disregard for environmental protection and sustainability by global corporations.

The collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh,  which left over 1,100 dead and countless people injured, is by far the most serious industrial disaster that the garment industry has ever seen. However, Gap has shamelessly refused to sign the legally binding agreement Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, an agreement signed between UNI Global Union, IndustriALL and more than 150 global garment companies. Instead, the company continue to actively undermine the efforts for effective reform in the textile industry with their own corporate-controlled sham agreement. 

UNI Global Union applauds the Public Eye Awards for highlighting Gap's systematic failure to live up to their social responsibility, their disregard of workers rights and contempt of workers lives in their supply chains and calls on Gap and all other brands to sign the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh.