Natasha Kandic Yugoslavia
	" I call for international attention on the fate of the disappeared and imprisoned, in Albania as well as Serbia. There is silence in Serbia, and there is silence in Kosovo. That silence must end."

Natasha Kandic, at the Martin Ennals Award Ceremony
in Vienna, September 1999.

Winner of the 1999 Martin Ennals Award
for Human Rights Defender

Natasha Kandic is the founder and director of the Humanitarian Law Centre in Belgrade. The Centre has proved an inspiring example of systematic and impartial investigations of human rights abuses.

She has stood for the rights of all groups and all minorities especially in times of conflict, which won her the title of the winner of the Martin Ennals Award as well as other awards thereafter.

Throughout the war in Kosovo, she did the seemingly impossible, shuttling back and forth between Belgrade and the shattered provinces, where she provided a lifeline of information to the outside world about the massive violations being committed by police and paramilitary groups. The evidence she gathered is vital to the preparation of indictments by the International Criminal Court for the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague.