Pakistan, March 15 -- Pakistan has ratified three International Labour Organisation (ILO) instruments that aim to improve workers' rights and protections, as well as "help empower evidence-based policy formulation to drive decent work", an ILO press release on Friday said.

The ratification affirms Pakistan's commitment to eradicating forced labour, aligning its efforts with human rights standards and achieving the eighth UN Sustainable Development Goal on decent work.

Minister for Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development Chaudhry Salik Hussain handed the instruments of ratification for the 'Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930', the amended 'Maritime Labour Convention (MLC, 2006)' and the 'Labour Statistics C...