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.
2015 | |||
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List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding | |||
| Coaxing ritual for camels | Mongolia |    | |
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Tugging rituals and games | Cambodia – Philippines – Republic of Korea – Viet Nam | | |
2014 | |||
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding | |||
| Mapoyo oral tradition and its symbolic reference points within their ancestral territory | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | | |
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Coming forth of the masks and puppets in Markala | Mali | | |
2013 | |||
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Xooy, a divination ceremony among the Serer of Senegal | Senegal | | |
2012 | |||
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Cultural practices and expressions linked to the balafon of the Senufo communities of Mali, Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire | Mali – Burkina Faso – Côte d'Ivoire | | |
2011 | |||
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding | |||
| Eshuva, Harákmbut sung prayers of Peru’s Huachipaire people | Peru | | |
| Yaokwa, the Enawene Nawe people's ritual for the maintenance of social and cosmic order | Brazil | | |
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Mibu no Hana Taue, ritual of transplanting rice in Mibu, Hiroshima | Japan | | |
| Pilgrimage to the sanctuary of the Lord of Qoyllurit’i | Peru | | |
2009 | |||
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding | |||
| Qiang New Year festival | China | | |
| Sanké mon, collective fishing rite of the Sanké | Mali | | |
| Traditions and practices associated with the Kayas in the sacred forests of the Mijikenda | Kenya | | |
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Mongolian art of singing, Khoomei | China | | |
| Oku-noto no Aenokoto | Japan | | |
| Traditional Ainu dance | Japan | | |
2008 | |||
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Oral heritage of Gelede | Benin – Nigeria – Togo | | |
| Samba de Roda of the Recôncavo of Bahia | Brazil | | |