Centre for Applied Human Rights

Panalipod: Climate Justice, Collective Protection, and the Defence of Communities in Mindanao

📅 5 June 2026
🕘 9:00 AM BST (UK) | 4:00 PM Philippine Time
💻 Zoom

Organised by the Mindanao Climate Justice Resource Facility (MCJ) in collaboration with the Centre for Applied Human Rights (CAHR), University of York, the forum brings together civil society actors, researchers, students, and community advocates to reflect on the realities faced by climate-affected and politically vulnerable communities in Mindanao.

The event will also serve as the public presentation of the Panalipod Framework (“Panalipod” is a Cebuano/Bisaya term meaning “to protect” or “protection”), developed through a collaborative process of institutional reflection, operational refinement, and stress-testing between MCJ and graduate researchers under the Human Rights Defence Clinic at the University of York.

More than a presentation of a framework, the forum is also a reflection of the meaningful collaboration, learning, and engagement that emerged through the Clinic process itself. The presentations and discussions will highlight the work of the student researchers together with MCJ’s ongoing efforts around collective protection, climate justice, and community-rooted approaches to environmental defence.

We hope the gathering can serve as a shared space for dialogue, solidarity, and critical reflection across movements, academic spaces, and advocacy communities.

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Design and Illustration by Mrinalini Godara.

Congratulations to all our MA in Applied Human Rights and LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice graduates!

Today marks the end of one chapter and the beginning of something new. You should be immensely proud of everything you have accomplished in the last year, and we look forward to seeing where your time at CAHR will take you.

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