Two US congressmen have nominated Natasa Kandic and the Humanitarian Law Center NGO for this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

Voice of America reported this on Thursday.

The nomination was submitted by US Congress Helsinki Commission Chairman Senator Roger Wicker and Representative Eliot Engel, ranking member of the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

According to a statement published by the Helsinki Commission, Kandic founded the Humanitarian Law Center (Fond za Humanitarno Pravo) in Belgrade in 1992 "to document egregious human rights violations committed during the conflicts associated with the breakup of the former Yugoslavia."

"More than 25 years later, the Humanitarian Law Center continues to fight for justice for victims of war crimes and to battle the extreme nationalism and strained ethnic tensions that linger in the Western Balkans," the statement said.

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