Humanitarian Law Center

Humanitarian Law Center
Founded1992 (1992)
TypeNon-profit NGO
FocusHuman rights, activism
HeadquartersBelgrade, Pristina
Area served
territories of former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Productnonprofit human rights advocacy
Key people
Nataša Kandić
AffiliationsRECOM Reconciliation Network (2006–)
Websitewww.hlc-rdc.org

Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) (Serbian: Fond za Humanitarno pravo, Albanian: Fondi për të Drejtën Humanitare) is the Serbian non-governmental organisation with offices in Belgrade, Serbia, and Pristina, Kosovo.[1] It was founded in 1992 by Nataša Kandić to document human rights violations across the former Yugoslavia in armed conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and, later, Kosovo.[1]

In 2007, HLC translated into the regional languages of the countries of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia all the materials of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) against Slobodan Milosevic and handed them over to the local authorities.

In the post-conflict era, HLC has continued working for the rights of victims of war crimes and social injustice, investigating the truth and pursuing justice on their behalf, working to obtain material and symbolic reparation, and campaigning to secure the removal of known perpetrators from state institutions and other positions of authority.[1]

The HLC prepared a publication, The Memory Book of Kosovo, and posted it on the Internet in 2015 for free access. The book documents all those killed and missing from January 1998 to December 2000 as a result of hostilities.[2][3]

HLC was nominated together with Natasha Kandich for the Nobel Prize in 2018.

  1. ^ a b c Humanitarian Law Center website Archived 2011-05-22 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 22 January 2011
  2. ^ "The Kosovo Memory Book presented at the New School in New York". Humanitarian Law Center. November 21, 2011. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
  3. ^ Domanovic, Milka (December 10, 2014). "List of Kosovo War Victims Published". Balkan Insight. Retrieved October 31, 2021.