Abstract
On 25 July 2022, Droupadi Murmu (Santhal) was sworn as India’s second woman president, but the first of Indigenous origins. Women’s political participation remains quite low all over the world, including at the local level. In light of what Professor Rainer Hofmann has taught to the academic and the international communities on the (effective) political participation of (national) minorities, this chapter aims to offer a concise overview on how human rights law protects and tries to guarantee the political participation of Indigenous women. After briefly introducing what Indigenous political participation implies under international law, it looks at women rights’ standards and to the latest developments vis-à-vis Indigenous women (and girls’) rights regarding their participation in the political sphere.