Thank you very much.
Thank you for being here. It's very enlightening.
My questions might be a little broader. I'll ask both of them and wait to hear your answers. I want to go to the two most populous countries in the world, India and China. One is a democracy; the other is still a communist country. How do you compare their legal systems?
Human rights records aren't any better in either one of them. I read somewhere that 13 million girls are killed annually in India. Does a democracy guarantee rule of law, human rights, and so on? I'd like you to comment on that.
The other question has to do with gender equality. We talk about it and obviously we all want it. We support it. It's important. If we go to countries such as India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, which are supposed to be third world countries, developing countries, we find in Bangladesh that you have Hasina Wajed as Prime Minister. I think she was Prime Minister twice. The leader of the opposition is also a female. Benazir Bhutto was the first elected woman in Pakistan; she was twice elected. Indira Gandhi had a tremendous role there. Are we to assume that those countries have achieved greater gender equality?
Here in our own country, we barely have women who go beyond the first round in election races. We've never had a female Prime Minister--we did have one, sorry; we had one for a very short while. She was a Conservative.
I'd like you to comment, please, on that. And Pakistan has reserved 60 seats for women; only women can run there, and women can also run anywhere else they choose to. They have beaten some men over there.