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The past ten years has seen a dramatic change in the migration pattern in the ASEAN region. While there are domestic migration and migration across the borders, the need to find work and sent money home to the migrant family back home has been its main objectives for these workers. While this need is very basic, the road to gain fruitful employment especially for the lower skills workers has been an up hill task with very sad endings at times. Human trafficking has also taken a new twist – the modus operation of these corrupted people changed and had become more sophisticated and more complex. Strategic Information Response Network (SIREN) a United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking (UNIAP) has just released its new report findings: RAIDS, RESCUES, RESOLUTION: REMOVING VICTIMS FROM SEX AND LABOR EXPLOITATION. This report is an eye opener. The conduct of raid/rescue operations is contentious. On the one hand, it is a government's responsibility to prosecute trafficking crimes and assist victims: some perceive direct action through raid/rescue operations as the most appropriate course of action to protect victims and to prevent future harms by traffickers. Others argue that the harm caused by raid/rescue operations outweighs the benefits, and so 'softer' and safer interventions should be pursued whenever possible, such as workplace monitoring and community protection or watchdog groups. In August 2008, UNIAP, ILO and the Australian Government initiative, the Asia Regional Trafficking in Persons (ARTIP) Project hosted a technical consultation in Bangkok with a group of 30 experts - primarily law enforcement, prosecutors, and Asia counter-trafficking specialists - to talk practically about the costs, benefits, help, and harm caused by raids and rescues in the sex trafficking and labor trafficking contexts; how to manage the risks and be honest about them; and frameworks for determining whether these invasive operations are the most appropriate course of action in a given situation. Experts were from the three sponsoring organizations as well as International Justice Mission, PeunPa Foundation, UK Police/Operation pentameter II, U.S. Department of Justice, IOM, and UNODC. For a copy of this report and information, please go to www.no-trafficking.org Background of The United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking (UNIAP). It was established in June 2000 to facilitate a stronger and more coordinated response to human trafficking, in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) and beyond. UNIAP is managed by a headquarters in Bangkok, with country project offices in the capitals of Cambodia, China, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam. The seven UNIAP offices have a combined staff of approximately 30. While UNIAP is a UN inter-agency project, UNIAP receives financial support from its own bilateral and multilateral funding and not from UN agencies, allowing it to retain a neutral position within the UN that serves all UN agencies, governments, and NGOs equally. It is the only inter-agency coordinating body on human trafficking of its kind within the United Nations system SIREN reports, and thousands of other reports on human trafficking, can also be found in the digital library of Terre des Hommes, at http://www.childtrafficking.com<http://www.childtrafficking.com/ or www.no-trafficking.org