Nataša Kandić is a Serbian human rights activist and the founder and former executive director of the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC), an organization campaigning for human rights and reconciliation in the former Yugoslavia. She formed the organization in 1992. The HLC’s research was integral to the war crimes prosecutions of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Kandić is a recipient of more than 20 international, regional and national human rights awards.

In 2000, she won the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, awarded jointly by Amnesty International, Diakonia, Human Rights Watch, HURIDOCS, International Alert, the International Commission of Jurists, the International Federation for Human Rights, the International Service for Human Rights and the World Organization Against Torture, granted annually to an individual or an organization who has displayed exceptional courage in combating human rights violations.

She was listed by Time as one of its 36 European Heroes in 2003, and again featured as a Time European Hero in 2006. In 2004, The People in Need Foundation awarded Kandic and the HLC its Homo Homini Award, presented by Václav Havel. In 2005, she was proclaimed an honorary citizen of Sarajevo, and Slobodna Bosna magazine named her the Person of the Year in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In September 2006, Kandić was named to the Order of Danica Hrvatska and awarded by the President of Croatia, which is given to individuals who have made a significant contribution to the advancement of moral values.