Indian indigenous groups 抗議する 計画（する） to give women political 代表
By Zarir Hussain
GUWAHATI, India, Feb 7 (Thomson Reuters 創立／基礎) - V iolent 抗議するs by male 支配するd indigenous groups in India's northeast have 軍隊d 当局 to 延期する a 地元の 選挙 that would, for the first time, 保証（人） seats for women in 都市の 市民の 団体／死体s.
Two people were killed and dozens 負傷させるd in Nagaland 明言する／公表する last week as indigenous groups たいまつd 政府 乗り物s and 封鎖するd roads in 抗議する against 政府 計画（する）s to reserve one third of all seats in 地元の, 都市の 当局 for women, 明言する／公表する 公式の／役人s said.
選挙s to the 明言する／公表する's 地元の 団体／死体s, which had been scheduled for Feb. 1, have been put on 持つ／拘留する に引き続いて the 抗議するs, they said.
"許すing women 保留（地）／予約s would be a scar on our age-old customary 法律s," said K.T. Vilie of the Nagaland Tribes 活動／戦闘 委員会, that is 主要な the （選挙などの）運動をする in 対立.
"It is also a 甚だしい／１２ダース 違反 of the 憲法, which 認めるs special status to Nagaland for 保護 of such 法律s," he told the Thomson Reuters 創立／基礎.
India's 最高裁判所 last year 支配するd in favour of a 嘆願（書） from the Naga Mothers' 協会, the 明言する／公表する's 主要な women's 権利s group, and directed the 明言する／公表する to reserve seats for women in 都市の 団体／死体 選挙s.
Nagaland has never elected a woman 立法議員. Cu stomary 法律s in the 明言する／公表する also 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 women from 長，率いるing village 会議s, land 所有権 and 相続物件 権利s.
Women's 権利s 行動主義者s said the 抗議するs are a reflection of the 堅固に守るd patriarchy that 否定するs them 所有権 of 所有物／資産／財産, 同様に as a place in the political 階層制度.
"Our customary 法律s are 深く，強烈に rooted in patriarchy," Monalisa Changkija, a feminist writer, told the Indian 表明する newspaper.
"The 恐れる is that women would finally have a say in how 資源s are used and 株d in towns, which could then 流出／こぼす over to villages (and) ... 混乱に陥れる／中断させる the status quo that has marginalised Naga women 政治上 and economically," she said.
にもかかわらず a 連邦の 法律 giving equal 相続物件 権利s, women are 概算の to own only 13 パーセント of 農地 in India.
And while India was の中で the first countries to have had a 女性（の） 首相, it 階級s worse than many other nations 含むing Indonesia and Bangladesh on the number of women 国会議員s.
Women 持つ／拘留する いっそう少なく than 12 パーセント of seats in 議会 in India, compared to a 全世界の 普通の／平均（する） of 23 パーセント, によれば the の間の-議会の Union, the London-based organisation that helps developing 僕主主義s.
A Women's 保留（地）／予約 法案 - which 供給するs for one-third of seats in 国家の and 明言する／公表する 議会s to be reserved for women - was introduced in 1996 and passed by India's upper house in 2010. It has never been 批准するd in the lower house.
The Naga Mothers' 協会 said women who contest 選挙s in Nagaland are routinely 脅すd with 暴力／激しさ and ex-communication, and often 軍隊d to 身を引く.
"Our 需要・要求する for women's 保留（地）／予約 is not 目的（とする）d at questi oning the customary 法律s; nor do we believe it is an 違反 of our practices," said Rosemary Dzuvichu, an 助言者 to the group.
"We 需要・要求する our 憲法の 権利s as equal 国民s, as human 存在s." (付加 報告（する）／憶測ing and 令状ing by Rina Chandran @rinachandran, Editing by Paola Totaro. Please credit the Thomson Reuters 創立／基礎, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers 人道的な news, women's 権利s, trafficking, 所有物／資産／財産 権利s, 気候 change and resilience. Visit news.信用.org to see more stories.)
