ARAT 2025 is back! This year we are in Chiang Mai, Thailand July 22-24.

Purchase Tickets Here

Standard In-Person Individual Ticket: $357.00
Online Individual Ticket: $57.00
Online Organization Tickets (20 logins): $357.00
In-Person Ticket + Online Organization Ticket: $397.00

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Conference Speakers

Conference Schedule

2025 Sessions

Check back regularly, as we will be adding sessions to the list as they are confirmed.

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

2025 Asia Region Anti-Trafficking Conference Themes

Organizational Development & Capacity Building - Contributing to the ongoing development of individuals and organizations in attendance and providing them with practical tools, resources, and knowledge for professional growth

Current Trends & Research in the Region - Equipping conference attendees with up-to-date research from our sector and information about the developing trafficking trends within the region

Survivor Inclusion - Prioritizing the role of survivors of trafficking in the movement and ensuring that they retain a prominent place as contributors both on stage and behind the scenes

Collaboration & Networking - Cultivating a space where relationships can be forged and strengthened for the benefit of the movement and the people in it