Public Eye, Association fondée sur la Déclaration de Berne

The Association aims to promote active solidarity with dominated population groups, mainly in developing or emerging countries. It is committed to fair globalization and sustainable development. It demands that human rights always take precedence over economic rights or interests. The Association wishes to improve the living conditions of disadvantaged populations in developing or emerging countries. The Association's action is carried out in accordance with and in the spirit of the Berne Declaration of 1968 and while ensuring development based on the strengths and culture of the populations concerned. It undertakes, in agreement and cooperation with the persons concerned, to defend the social, economic and political interests of persons or groups of persons abroad who are harmed or likely to be harmed by human rights violations. or environmental protection standards as well as due to criminal offenses, such as corruption, granting or accepting an advantage, money laundering, on the part of companies or other actors Swiss, as well as offenses provided for in titles 12bis to 12quater of the Swiss Penal Code (such as genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes). To this end, the Association is authorized to undertake any negotiation process and to initiate any legal or administrative action, as well as to file a criminal complaint in its own name and to become a party in criminal proceedings to assert the rights of the persons or groups of persons concerned, in particular by prohibiting the infringement, by stopping the infringement, by establishing the unlawfulness of the infringement and by compensating the damage. In this context, it does not involve its own assets. In this sense, the Association mainly intends to: disseminate information on development issues; express public positions during events involving Switzerland and developing or emerging countries; challenge people and institutions to invite them to decide on the relations between Switzerland and developing or emerging countries; support or create working or action groups engaged in development policy; actively participate in the coordination of national organizations working in the field of development and collaborate, where appropriate, with movements whose action tends to further development in Switzerland; encourage its groups and members to make their desire for solidarity and change credible through their concrete commitment and financial commitment; represent before the courts the interests of persons or groups of persons abroad who are harmed or likely to be harmed by violations of human rights or environmental protection standards as well as by criminal offenses, such as corruption, granting or accepting an advantage, money laundering on the part of Swiss companies or other economic actors; or initiate corresponding criminal proceedings. The Association does not itself manage development projects in developing or emerging countries. The Association is active in the three main linguistic regions of Switzerland. As part of its activity, the Association takes optimal consideration of the specificities and needs of each region, and more particularly cultural differences.