The founder and Executive Director of the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC), Kandic’s reporting of war crimes is unflinching.

Kandic interviewed witnesses and victims in her research into killings, disappearances, the torture of prisoners of war, and the patterns of ethnic cleansing in times of armed conflict. The HLC cooperated with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague and with prosecutor's offices in Serbia, Montenegro, and Kosovo, providing them with information and expert assistance with regard to war crimes trials.

The HLC filed won legal action against the state of Serbia on behalf of Serb refugees, who were taken to war zones in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia to be incorporated into the Bosnian Serb and Croatian Serb armies.

Kandic was one of the publishers of the first anti-war book in Serbia, A Grave for Miroslav Milenkovic. She was an organizer of a protest against the suffering of civilians in Sarajevo in which 150,000 carried an almost mile-long ribbon through downtown Belgrade.

Kandic and her Center strongly advocate regional reconciliation, taking responsibility for the crimes committed in the recent past, and restoring the human dignity of the victims whatever their ethnicity.

Throughout the 1990 wars in Balkans, she was the subject of repeated threats, harassment and harsh physical assault.

She is a recipient of the Human Rights Watch Award (1993), the Lawyer's Committee for Human Rights Award (1999), and the National Endowment for Democracy Award (2000, with Veton Suroi).