Aisha Abdel Hadi, Minister of Manpower and Immigration, said the ministry is at war with businessmen who prefer Asian labor to their Egyptian counterparts, on the grounds that the former is cheaper and more efficient. Aisha considers this an evasion of social responsibility, asserting that the Council of Ministers rejected the demands and declared its adherence to Egyptian labor. Aisha said, yesterday, during the conference organized by the National Center for Criminal and Social Research, in collaboration with the Center for Human Rights entitled 'forced labor and human rights in the context of trafficking human beings', that the ministry is considering how to deal with businessmen on a framework of wages. Dr. Ahmed Kamal Oboualemjd, Vice-President of the National Council for Human Rights, said that the absence of a culture of human rights is one of the major constraints experienced by citizens over the last five thousand years. Citizens have not learned that they have rights that can be claimed, instead of a culture of 'the Custodian of the nation.' Oboualemjd pointed out that the world is living on the remnants of an international system, not in the international system in full. He continued to say that the world only learned the dialogue of civilizations during the last three years.
For his part, Dr. Hossam Badrawi, a member of the Shura Council, called to issue a law that required the companies operating in Egypt to carry out social responsibility towards society and the establishment of a neutral authority to be responsible for issuing a report on the level of each company's commitment to that responsibility. Dr. Hossam Badrawi said in his speech at the 'corporate social responsibility in light of the economic crisis', held yesterday by the World Bank Information Center in Cairo, that there are international standards to determine the extent of their commitment to that responsibility.
