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MARTA PARDAVI is Director of Programs at the Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC). One of the largest Hungarian human rights organizations, Mrs. Pardavi is actively involved in designing and implementing the HHC's activities and projects. She also coordinates a countrywide network of asylum lawyers, three Hungarian refugee law clinics, the regional project Legal Assistance through Refugee Clinics (LARC), as well as projects focusing on monitoring detention conditions and promoting criminal legal aid reform.

Additionally, Mrs. Pardavi is regularly engaged in the HHC's advocacy efforts before European and international human rights monitoring mechanisms, such as the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and the UN Human Rights Committee. Since 2003, she has been an Executive Committee member of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles. She is a graduate of the Budapest-based ELTE University Faculty of Law.

MODERATOR

JOANNE VAN SELM is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, focusing on refugee protection, international humanitarian response, and migration management. Her most recent work includes the European Commission's "Study on the Feasibility of setting up resettlement programmes at the EU level." Dr. van Selm coordinates MPI's EU Visitors series. She is also a Senior Researcher at the University of Amsterdam's Institute of Ethnic and Migration Studies and Co-Editor of the Journal of Refugee Studies. Additionally, Dr. van Selm is President of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM). During 2000-2001, she co-directed a project on Security and Refugees for the United Nations University, and has served as a member of the Executive Committee of the International Studies Association's section on Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration. She has also published widely on temporary protection, European asylum policy, and other refugee and migration related topics.