It's a matter of verifying and verifying and enforcing.
Efforts to combat slavery will have only limited effectiveness unless anti-slavery laws are recognized, implemented and enforced by law enforcement officers, courts, and political leaders.
Since Immigration and Customs Enforcement was created nearly three years ago, it has been troubled by controversies, including accusations of mismanagement of its $3.2billion budget, questions about some officers' integrity and criticism of effectiveness in enforcing immigration laws.
How Zimbabwe's participation impacts the work of the FCTC as a whole may ultimately depend on the allegiances of its delegates, and the effectiveness of FCTC measures to limit tobacco industry interference and enforce compliance with FCTC measures.
In addition, since many of these approaches are new, a better understanding of how they are operationalized and enforced is necessary to truly evaluate their effectiveness.
We studied the evolution and effectiveness of a community-based management effort to establish, monitor, and enforce a marine reserve network in the Gulf of California, Mexico.
Research suggests that the effectiveness of peer punishment depends on a group's capacity to establish and enforce contribution norms.
Mr. Bush was not more specific, and development experts said they could not judge the effectiveness of the criteria until the administration determined how they would be defined, monitored and enforced.
The effectiveness of contracts is bounded by the institutional environment in which they are designed and enforced.
It is important that this regulation can be applied to, and enforced across, a wide range of stakeholders in order to maximise its effectiveness.
Many, though, are poorly designed and enforced.
