Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN)
We defend human rights, minority rights, and religious freedom in Myanmar. Through field documentation, digital monitoring, and international advocacy, we work to ensure that truth is heard and communities at risk are not forgotten.
Who We Are
Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN) was founded in 2012 to work for human rights, minority rights, and religious freedom in Myanmar. We believe that human rights are essential to the proper functioning of a democratic society.
BHRN has been legally registered in the United Kingdom since 2015. Due to the sensitive and high-risk nature of documenting violations against ethnic and religious minorities, our registration outside Myanmar helps protect the safety and independence of our work.
Today, BHRN works with communities, researchers, advocates, journalists, international institutions, and human rights organisations to document abuses, challenge discrimination, and promote justice and accountability.
Protecting Rights, Challenging Discrimination
To protect human rights, challenge discrimination, and support communities facing persecution. Through documentation, advocacy, and cooperation with local and international partners, we work to advance justice and dignity for all people in Myanmar.
A Democratic and Just Myanmar
A Myanmar where everyone — regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, or political belief — can live freely under a democratic system that respects human rights, equality, and the rule of law.
What Guides Our Work
- Independence — Free from political, military, or religious influence.
- Integrity — Evidence-based, transparent, and accountable.
- Courage — Speaking truth to power in difficult environments.
- Solidarity — Standing with persecuted and vulnerable communities.
- Human Dignity — Every person deserves safety, respect, and freedom.
Key Areas of Work
- Human Rights Documentation — Recording abuses affecting ethnic and religious minorities across Myanmar and refugee communities.
- International Advocacy — Engaging with the UN, governments, diplomats, policymakers, and global institutions.
- Religious Freedom & Minority Rights — Highlighting discrimination, persecution, and restrictions affecting vulnerable communities.
- Digital Hate Monitoring — Tracking hate speech, extremist narratives, and online threats.
- Training & Capacity Building — Supporting local partners and organisations to document human rights abuses safely and credibly.
Evidence-Based Truth
- Direct Documentation — Collecting first-hand information through interviews, testimonies, questionnaires, and community sources.
- Rigorous Verification — Cross-checking field information with media reports, local sources, and independent evidence.
- Credible Analysis — Producing reliable briefings and reports for diplomatic, academic, media, and human rights audiences.
- International Standards — Aligning documentation and reporting with recognised human rights and accountability frameworks.
Our History at a Glance
BHRN began advocating for human rights, minority rights, and religious freedom in Myanmar.
Expanded documentation of hate speech, discrimination, and violations affecting minority communities.
Legally registered in the United Kingdom to strengthen independence, safety, and organisational accountability.
Reported on serious abuses and helped bring international attention to crimes against minority communities.
Strengthened monitoring of hate speech, extremist narratives, and online incitement.
Intensified documentation and advocacy following the military coup and the escalation of human rights abuses.
Continued engagement with UN mechanisms, governments, diplomats, and international accountability bodies.
Supporting international accountability efforts and expanding monitoring of hate speech and disinformation.
Our Impact
BHRN has earned a reputation for providing credible and reliable analysis on hate speech, religious freedom, minority rights, and the broader human rights situation in Myanmar.
Decision makers, diplomats, UN mechanisms, policymakers, academics, media organisations, and human rights groups use BHRN’s reporting and analysis to better understand developments in Myanmar.
- UN and international human rights mechanisms with documentation and analysis.
- Government and diplomatic briefings on minority rights, religious freedom, and persecution.
- Public reports and advocacy campaigns shared with diplomatic, academic, media, and human rights audiences.
- Training and support for organisations documenting human rights abuses in Myanmar.
- Accountability efforts by helping ensure credible evidence and analysis reach international audiences.
Our Commitment
From our early work in 2012 to our role today as an internationally recognised human rights organisation, our commitment has remained the same: to defend the rights, dignity, and freedoms of all people in Myanmar.
We continue to document abuses, support communities, challenge discrimination, and speak out for justice, accountability, and democratic freedoms.
Our work is rooted in evidence, guided by solidarity, and driven by the belief that every person deserves to live safely and freely.