Natasa Kandic, founder and executive director of the Belgrade Humanitarian Law Center, received the Civic Courage Award established this year by the US Northcote Parkinson Fund. The award, which is given to persons “who resisted evil in spite of great risk,” was presented to Ms Kandic on 26 September at the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London. The award includes a cash prize of 50,000 US dollars.
A special Northcote Parkinson cash prize will be presented to Sergei Khodorovich, formerly of the Russian Social Fund, an organization established by the famous Russian writer and dissident, Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
The award was given posthumously to German Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a victim of Nazism, Judge Giovanni Falcone for his unflinching struggle against the Sicilian mafia, attorney Rosemary Nelson, who was assassinated while defending political prisoners in Northern Ireland, Neelan Tiruchelvam, a Sri Lankan peace activist who was killed by extremists last year, and Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved many Jews from Nazi persecution.
