Nataša Kandić

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Nataša Kandić

Nataša Kandić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Наташа Кандић ; * 1946 in Kragujevac , Yugoslavia ) is a Serbian human rights activist . She is director of her self-established and overseas funded humanitarian law fund.

activity

Kandić founded the Fund for Humanitarian Law in Belgrade in 1992, a non-governmental organization for the investigation and investigation of war crimes during the war in Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Because of her work, she was unpopular during the time of the Milošević regime, but also after its overthrow during the reign of the democratically elected Vojislav Koštunica , as she is considered by many to be a “polluter”. On February 17, 2008, she took part in the adoption of the declaration of independence for Kosovo in the Kosovar parliament. For this she was heavily criticized and sometimes insulted by Serbian nationalists and the media.

Honors

In 1993, Kandić was recognized by Human Rights Watch . The Time Magazine declared her in 2003 to one of "36 European pop heroes", including Jamie Oliver and David Beckham included. She received the Homo Homini Prize 2003 for her commitment to human rights. In 2005, she called for those responsible for the Srebrenica massacre to be punished and was made an honorary citizen of Sarajevo . In 2006 she was awarded the Katarina Zrinski Order by Stipe Mesić for “Merits for the dissemination of moral social values ​​through numerous humanitarian activities”. In 2009, together with Mirsad Tokaca and Vesna Terselic, she received the Schwarzkopf Europe Prize of the Schwarzkopf Foundation Young Europe .

Condemnation

On February 5, 2009, she was sentenced to a fine of 200,000 dinars (about 2300 euros) for defamation and defamation . The Belgrade court found that her allegations made in a television interview in 2006 about a crime allegedly committed in the civil war of the crumbling Yugoslavia against the local civilian population in 1991 in the Slavonian village of Antin, with the participation of the SRS Deputy Chairman of the SRS Tomislav Nikolić in the 2006 election year, were defamatory and could not be true. Tomislav Nikolić, who is demanding 1,000,000 dinars (around 11,100 euros) in damages for the libel, was made aware by the court of the possibility of bringing this damage claim to bear in further proceedings.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article by Amnesty International, February 20, 2008  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.amnesty.at  
  2. ↑ Recipients of the Homo Homini Award ( English ) clovekvtisni.cz. Archived from the original on May 1, 2011. Retrieved December 17, 2012.
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from June 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Report in RTS
personal data
SURNAME Kandić, Nataša
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Belgrade