The International Labor Organization (ILO) has ranked Egypt among the worst 25 countries around the world that violate the rights of workers, after the government failed in managing the crisis with the international organization and failure to prevent the observations of the organization on labor legislation, the deterioration of the situation of workers and the decline of trade union freedoms.

In addition to the security forces intervention to break up sit-ins organized by workers as well as the insistence of the government itself, represented by the Ministry of Manpower and Immigration, on the intervention in the affairs of trade union organizations, the ILO said Egypt continues to lag behind the vast majority of the world in terms of treatment of workers.

The international organization rejected during a conference held in Geneva a governmental request to lift the name of Egypt from the list of individual countries in violation of ILO conventions – the black list – and the postponement of accountability until discussing the report of the technical assistance which visited Cairo last April, but the ILO insisted on putting Egypt in the final list of countries violating the rights, and identified earlier this month the date for its accountability to the members of the General Assembly of the Organization of the Commission on international standards, on violations of labor rights in Egypt, and the reasons for failure to commit to the international observations, and suppression of security of sit-ins in Egypt.

Sources, who asked not to be named, said that the government’s failure to solve the problems of workers “will highlight the discussions of the nations of the world in the International Labor Conference in Geneva,” noting that the organization refused to lift Egypt’s name from the list of the violation at the same time that it lifted the names of the Arab Gulf States that apply the “sponsorship system, because the international organization gave Egypt more than a chance to correct their status, but the government ignored all the opportunities given to them by the organization, and insisted on not committing to them.”