Asia Freedom Network

Asia Freedom Network (AFN) is a regional network connecting organisations, national coalitions, civil society leaders, government agencies, survivor-led initiatives and cross-sector partners working to address human trafficking, exploitation and related human rights challenges across Asia.

AFN exists to strengthen collaboration, advance collective action and build more effective, coordinated responses to complex regional challenges. Through strategic partnerships, knowledge exchange, leadership development, research and systems-level advocacy, AFN connects local realities with regional and global conversations, ensuring that lived experience, human dignity and human rights remain central to policy, practice and systems change.

The MHAT Initiative | Mental Health in Anti-Trafficking & Humanitarian Crisis

The MHAT Initiative is a global, cross-disciplinary platform advancing mental health as an essential component of human rights, protection, justice and humanitarian response. It brings together mental health professionals, researchers, frontline practitioners, policymakers, humanitarian actors, organisational leaders and people with lived experience to strengthen how individuals, organisations and systems understand and respond to mental health needs.

Through the MHAT Global Conference, specialist learning, research, strategic dialogue and cross-sector collaboration, the initiative seeks to move mental health beyond individual care and into the systems, policies and practices that shape people's lives. MHAT advocates for approaches that are evidence-informed, trauma-informed, culturally responsive and grounded in dignity, recognising that mental health matters not only for those experiencing exploitation and crisis, but also for the