Katarina Tomasevski

1953-2006

Friends and co-workers
about Katarina

If the World Bank could be debarred from education, it would change beyond recognition. There would be freedom to design education through popular participation and to decide how best to finance it. My wish to imagine this happening is summarized in six points which describe the harm which the World Bank inflicts upon education. There have been some 38,000 readers already and the link is here.

On November 3rd we commemorated Katarina at Restaurant Dubrovnik. This year we were joined by Katarina's brother Dragan Tomasevski. Thanks to Dragan we are now able to present you with new pictures of a very young Katarina.

Hashil has written a small note which nicely expresses the views of us all.

Katarina's books have found a new home in a nice and spacious reading room which forms a separate part of the RWI library at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute. The books now have a sticker on the inside of the cover identifying the book as part of the Katarina Tomasevski Collection, and they are catalogued as such in the library database.

The 2006 global report on the right to education is here. For those who do not have time to read 281 pages dotted with 1,317 footnotes, please read the reviews by Gareth Sweeny and Jandhyala B. G. Tilak. Is it difficult to mainstream human rights in development? No, here are simple recipes for girls’ education, enforcing the rights of the poor and HIV/AIDS. A general overview of the rules and tools is here.