30 April. ICCROM is pleased to welcome Mr Herman Kiriama, an archaeologist with the National Museums of Kenya, who will be joining the secretariat of the Africa 2009 programme, as a consultant during 2008-9.

24 April. Bihanne Wassink, paper conservator at the National Archives of Netherlands and an ICCROM course lecturer, died unexpectedly on 21 April 2008, aged 50.  

25 April. Luxor and Cairo, Egypt
24 April. Retreat of the ICCROM Council
8 April. Tribute to Cesare Brandi, Vatican Museum
4 April. Italian National Commission of UNESCO

23 April. AFRICA 2009 - Impact Assessment and Heritage, Sudan
17 March. AFRICA 2009 - Conservation and management of immovable cultural heritage, Benin
7 March. ATHAR: Conservation and management of heritage sites in the Arab Region, Sharjah, UAE
15 January. Management planning for cultural heritage, Shanghai, China.

29 April. Traditional skills shortage is still putting heritage buildings at risk
28 April. Five Years On, SAFE Remembers the Looting of the Iraq Museum

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18 April. Today is the international day for monuments and sites. This special day offers an opportunity to raise the public´s awareness of the diversity of the world´s heritage and the efforts that are required to protect and conserve it, as well as to draw attention to its vulnerability.

28 April. Training: assessing and managing risks to your collections, Canada
28 avril. Training: British & Irish Sound Archives (BISA), United Kingdom
25 April. Internet: cultural heritage policy documents, The Getty
24 April. Event: monuments conservation, Spain
24 April. Jobs: International Council of African Museums (AFRICOM)
21 April. Event: Durability of Paper and Writing, Slovenia
21 April. Summer course: urban conservation, Colombia
16 April. Event: Legacy of Three-Color Photography
16 April. Publication: Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation
14 April. Internet: Practical guide on open source software, UNESCO
14 April. Event: Science and Technology in Archaeology and Conservation, Italy
10 April. Event: sustainable development of historical cities, Italy
9 April. Competition: Best degree projects
8 April. Job: Director, Centre for Heritage Development in Africa (CHDA), Kenya
2 April. Internet: Audiovisual research collections and their preservation
2 April. Event: VSMM2008, Cyprus.
1 April. Internet: HAL (Hyper Articles en Ligne)
1 April. Training: MSc in Forensic Conservation, United Kingdom
1 April. Events: Conservation events this month.

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27 March. ICCROM is pleased to announce the publication of a bilingual (English-French) edition of AFRICA 2009 Newsletter 7.

27 March. Hernán Crespo Toral, former Assistant Director-General for Culture at UNESCO, died at his home in Quito, Ecuador on 23 March 2008, aged 70.