On 12 November 2007, UNIAP and MTV came together with partners from UNESCO, IOM, ARTIP, and ILO to co-sponsor a one-day state-of-the-art briefing with the purpose of providing an audience of donors, implementing agencies, practitioners, and academics with a comprehensive update on counter-trafficking. Working together with local and international partners and using a variety of innovative formats and media, the workshop highlighted urgent issues and gaps in human counter-trafficking, and some of the more effective ways that they are - or should be - addressed.

The event benefited from the expertise of multiple partners in their respective specialist fields, focusing on particular areas of counter-trafficking and exploitation. Victim vignettes and brief documentaries were produced for the event by the USAID-funded MTV EXIT ASIA Project, to illustrate the issues, the plights of victims, and the exploitation that we face in counter-trafficking today. An interactive ‘town hall’ discussion format was used to encourage active and sustained audience participation. The five sessions focused on: