ARAT 2025 was a great event! Thank you to all who joined us.

Scroll below for Photos, Sessions, Videos, and Speaker & Agenda details (available via Whova through July 2026)

2025 Sessions

Organizational Development & Capacity Building

  • Our Changing Funding Landscape: Toward a More Just Future

  • How Attachment Style Impacts Trauma Informed Care

  • Ethical and Impactful Data Collection

  • Addressing Trauma When Access to Mental Health Care Isn’t Available

  • Building Resilient Futures: A Culturally Responsive, Trauma-Informed Approach to Workforce Development for Survivors

  • Narratives With Integrity: Tools for Ethical Impact Storytelling

  • The Art of the Invitation: How to build mutually-enriching partnerships through values-aligned fundraising

  • AI-Driven ESG Governance: Transforming Anti-Trafficking Strategies in the Asia-Pacific

Survivor Inclusion

  • Highlighting Lived Experience Experts in the Asia Region (PANEL)

  • Transforming Survivor Support and Program Impact through Freedom Lifemap

  • How to Develop a Survivor Advisory Council

  • Building Bridges, Not Stages - Donor, NGO, Survivor Collaboration

  • Accompanying Witnesses Through the Legal Process

  • Red-Light Realities: allowing the voice of those with lived-experience to shape policy and practice

Current Trends & Research

  • Scamming, Forced Criminality, and Transnational Crime (PANEL)

  • Current Human Trafficking Trends in the Asia Region (PANEL)

  • Tackling Child and Forced Marriage in the Context of Trafficking in Persons: Challenges, Gaps and Responses (PANEL)

  • Using AI to Combat Scamming Recruitment

  • The Prevention, Protection, & Recovery of Men, Boys, & Gender Minorites (PANEL)

  • Pathways to Nowhere: Trafficking Victims Stuck in Hong Kong’s Refugee System

  • How Community Based Care Leads to Post Traumatic Growth

  • Trafficking Specific to Children (PANEL)

  • Distress Migration Leading to Trafficking

Networking & Collaboration

  • Speed Networking

  • Country Working Groups

  • Trafficking in the Pacific

  • Asia Region Survivor and Allies Network Gathering

  • The Scientia Program: Advancing enhanced inter-agency operational partnerships and capabilities to combat trafficking and child exploitation in Thailand

Conference Agenda

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