The Committee meets annually to evaluate nominations proposed by States Parties to the 2003 Convention and decide whether or not to inscribe those cultural practices and expressions of intangible heritage on the Convention’s Lists.
By clicking on the inscribed elements below, you can discover the nominations, photos and videos, together with Committee decisions and evidence of community consent.
2016 | |||
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Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Living culture of three writing systems of the Georgian alphabet | Georgia |    | |
| Nawrouz, Novruz, Nowrouz, Nowrouz, Nawrouz, Nauryz, Nooruz, Nowruz, Navruz, Nevruz, Nowruz, Navruz | Afghanistan – Azerbaijan – India – Iran (Islamic Republic of) – Iraq – Kazakhstan – Kyrgyzstan – Uzbekistan – Pakistan – Tajikistan – Turkmenistan – Turkey | | |
2015 | |||
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Lad’s dances in Romania | Romania | | |
2014 | |||
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Capoeira circle | Brazil | | |
2013 | |||
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Commemoration feast of the finding of the True Holy Cross of Christ | Ethiopia | | |
2012 | |||
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding | |||
| Noken multifunctional knotted or woven bag, handcraft of the people of Papua | Indonesia | | |
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Frevo, performing arts of the Carnival of Recife | Brazil | | |
| Rites and craftsmanship associated with the wedding costume tradition of Tlemcen | Algeria | | |
2011 | |||
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices | |||
| Programme of cultivating ludodiversity: safeguarding traditional games in Flanders | Belgium | | |
| Táncház method: a Hungarian model for the transmission of intangible cultural heritage | Hungary | | |
2010 | |||
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Al-Bar’ah, music and dance of Oman Dhofari valleys | Oman | | |
| Gastronomic meal of the French | France | | |
| Traditional Mexican cuisine - ancestral, ongoing community culture, the Michoacán paradigm | Mexico | | |
2009 | |||
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding | |||
| Mongol Biyelgee, Mongolian traditional folk dance | Mongolia | | |
| Rite of the Kalyady Tsars (Christmas Tsars) | Belarus | | |
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Carnaval de Negros y Blancos | Colombia | | |