The results indicate that there are four main challenges in implementing international standards.
He says there is "nothing so powerful as an idea whose time has come" and that there are now 129 jurisdictions who have committed to implementing international standards to give tax information on request.
Through the reform of the juvenile justice system, most recently supported by UNICEF and the EU, Montenegro is heading towards implementing international standards in this area.
This will require distinguishing between those financial centres that are willing to implement international standards of transparency and exchange of information and those that are not.
A system that implements international standards which embody prevention, diversion and alternatives to detention over deterrent and punishment is more likely to reduce offending and re-offending and therefore contribute to public safety.
"However, much more needs to be done to implement international standards and to ensure compliance in order to hold perpetrators accountable and to stop grave violations against children in times of war.
Further positive change could also be fostered through donor support to governments to undertake legal and institutional reforms properly to implement international standards on the land and territorial rights of indigenous peoples.
The report examines both the human rights consequences of factories categorizing permanent workers as temporary and the potential impact of this practice on the Cambodian garment industry, which, in the last decade, has aggressively competed with other developing countries by promoting its reputation for implementing international labor standards.
It requires a comprehensive human rights-based approach that puts women at the center of efforts to hold governments and employers accountable for implementing international and national standards that guarantee women's civil, social, political, and labour rights [ 49].
Furthermore, the lack of universal consensus on which diagnostic methods and strategies should be implemented heightens the problem of under-diagnosis and as demonstrated, no uniformly implemented international gold standard diagnostic testing criteria for MHE exist.
Emily Norton of NGO Global Witness says: "It is voluntary, and unfortunately what studies are showing is that companies in Europe are not implementing those international standards.
