Human rights in the maya region global politics cultural contentions and moral engagements in the case of translation between european languages which share a history of political and moral ideas derived from christianity and the enlightenment the difference is hardly perceptible even in cases in which the translator goes to . She is the author of rights in rebellion indigenous struggle and human rights in chiapas and a co editor of dissident women gender and cultural politics in chiapas xochitl leyva solano is a researcher and professor at the centro de investigaciones e estudios superiores en antropologia social ciesas in chiapas mexico. Request pdf on jan 1 2008 pedro pitarch and others published human rights in the maya region global politics cultural contentions and moral engagements find read and cite all the . Human rights in the maya region global politics cultural contentions and moral engagements pitarch pedro amazoncomau books. In recent years latin american indigenous groups have regularly deployed the discourse of human rights to legitimate their positions and pursue their goals perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the maya region of chiapas and guatemala where in the last two decades indigenous social movements have been engaged in ongoing negotiations with the state and the presence of multinational