ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) is launching an international advocacy mission to Brussels from 14 to 18 October 2025 to spotlight the escalating humanitarian catastrophe in Myanmar, the dire conditions of Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar and the worsening rollback of rights and democracy across Southeast Asia.
A delegation of current and former lawmakers from Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand will brief Members of the European Parliament, European External Action Service and the EU Commission, and engage Myanmar diaspora communities and human rights activists in Europe to advance international solidarity and secure concrete, immediate commitments.
APHR’s cross-regional delegation will bring first hand evidence and experiences from its recent fact-finding missions to affected communities and groups in Mae Sot, Chiang Mai and most recently in the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar. In fact, inside Myanmar nearly 22 million people require assistance and more than 3.5 million are internally displaced amid airstrikes, destruction of schools, hospitals and homes and severely constrained humanitarian access. In Cox’s Bazar, over 1.3 million Rohingya refugees face dwindling aid, acute food insecurity and stalled repatriation among others.
In Brussels, APHR will present evidence-based recommendations and press for critical, sustained scale-up of humanitarian aid that reaches civilians and bypasses the junta, targeted measures to hold perpetrators accountable; and mobilize resources and reinforce the use of international accountability mechanisms to support access to justice. Furthermore, to urge expanded legal protection and resettlement pathways for Rohingya people and stronger EU–ASEAN parliamentary coordination.
Driven by sheer urgency, this mission is part of APHR’s ongoing efforts to keep Southeast Asia’s human rights crisis at the center of international agenda and to mobilize parliamentary networks across Europe so that commitments become immediate policy action and sustained funding for communities at the frontlines of impunity, violence and abuses.
