I am glad that the Minister of State, Deputy Tom Kitt, brought up the statistics from the UN human development index. In the most recent report on the state of the world population, the maternal mortality rate in Iraq in 2001 was 336 per 100,000. In neighbouring Iran, it was 75. Fifteen years ago those figures would have been the reverse. One dreads to think what the maternal mortality rate will be this year in Iraq. While everyone in Iraq is suffering, women and children are suffering disproportionately. Many Iraqi women now cannot go to work because they are molested and raped. There has been a considerable increase in the number of illegal abortions in Iraq. As the Minister of State is aware, there is a system of "honour killing" among some tribes in Iraq, where, if a woman is raped, it is considered a disgrace to the family and she is killed to restore honour. These women are now resorting to illegal abortions to hide what has happened to them.