NATASA KANDIC, VETON SUROI – LAUREATES OF NETHERLANDS DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD

Natasa Kandic, Executive Director of the Humanitarian Law Center, and Veton Suroi, Editor-in-Chief of the Albanian-language daily Koha Ditore of Pristina, have been awarded this year’s human rights award of the Netherlands Geuzenverzet Foundation.

The prestigious award is given to individuals and institutions who strive for the establishment and preservation of democracy and against dictatorship, discrimination and racism.

Established in 1987, the award is presented to the laureates on 13 March in memory of 18 members of the Geuzen Dutch resistance group who were shot by German occupation forces at The Hague on 13 March 1941.