The ILO's MinimumAgeConvention, 1973 (No. 138) has beenratified by 168 member States andthe WorstFormsof ChildLabourConvention, 1999 (No. 182) by 180 - near universal ratification.
Pakistan has signed and ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which prohibits childlabour, but officials argue that it's not easy to enforce the terms of the convention.