NATASA KANDIC

“SOCIAL and CIVIL ENGAGEMENT” Award

Nataša carries all the weight,  the atrocities and injustices perpetrated during the Balkan war, on her back.

She  is a Serbian human rights activist and she  founded the Humanitarian Law Center in Belgrade in 1992. Its  research was integral to the war crimes prosecutions of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Strongly revealing was the "smoking gun" video linking Serbian military forces to the Srebrenica massacres.

In the late 1990s, she gave evidence and information to the world on human rights violations perpetrated by police and paramilitary groups.

She is the recipient of a great number of awards because of her commitment, including the Martin Enpals award in 2000, a prestigious award for human rights defenders.

Her work and contribution to the reconciliation in the Balkans was extraordinary.

In 2003 She was listed by Time as one of its 36 European Heroes.

In 2013 she was named " Civil Rights Defender of the Year" and she won the "Days of Sarajevo 2013" award.

She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018.