Nataša Kandić is a human rights activist. Since the start of the Yugoslav wars in the early 1990s, she has documented and protested against war crimes committed between 1991 and 1999, including torture, rape, and murder. She is the founder and ex-executive director of the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) in Belgrade, an organisation campaigning for human rights and reconciliation in the former Yugoslavia, focusing on the Serbian role in conflict. Since its foundation in 1992, the HLC has been praised for its systematic and impartial investigations of human rights abuses; the HLC's research was integral to the war crimes prosecutions of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), particularly the "smoking gun" video linking Serbian military forces to the Srebrenica massacres. Nataša has won numerous regional, national and international awards for her human rights work, among others the Human Rights Watch Award (1993), the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders (1999) and the European Heroes Award (2003).
