The mandatory deposition of certain data into the public domain and publication policies of journals enforcing transparency on these issues constitute important steps in these directions.
The catch is China's issues with actually enforcing these standards on the ground – a problem that is likely to cause Beijing increasing problems if it doesn't find a way to reconcile its commercial ambitions with ensuring a safe and peaceful reception for the growing number of Chinese companies and workers in conflict-affected countries across the world.
We need to enforce issues dealing with environment, landscape and soil from a cultural point of view.
There are inadequate resources, capacity, and authority to monitor and enforce fundamental educational issues, especially in marginal communities.
Enforcing transparency on these issues is very often beyond the scope of the health sector alone, as it does require broader interventions cutting across sectors at national level, touching upon economic sectors (growth of local production, fiscal policies), trade, customs, law enforcement agencies and other aspects.
Previously, the government has gone to court to enforce summonses issued to the Arthur Andersen, BDO Seidman and KPMG accounting firms, the Jenkens & Gilchrist law firm and the Diversified Group, a tax shelter promoter.
Malaysia is a Muslim-majority country with sharia courts that run parallel to its secular ones; police can enforce fatwas issued by Muslim clerics.
"The pattern now is that the judges who care about these issues are enforcing them, and the judges who don't care about these issues are not".
Moreover, China has not signed the Hague convention on international child abduction, and does not enforce custody orders issued by foreign courts.
In 1982, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit refused to enforce a subpoena issued by a group of states that were suing several oil companies on antitrust charges.
