Browse the Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Register of good safeguarding practices

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.

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Results : 16 elements corresponding to 13 countries

2017¹ – 2016¹ – 2014³ – 2013¹ – 2011² – 2010¹ – 2009⁴ – 2008³

2017
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Dikopelo folk music of Bakgatla ba Kgafela in Kgatleng District	Botswana
2016
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Gada system, an indigenous democratic socio-political system of the Oromo	Ethiopia
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
Capoeira circle	Brazil
Coming forth of the masks and puppets in Markala	Mali
2013
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Nan Pa’ch ceremony	Guatemala
2011
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
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
Traditional knowledge of the jaguar shamans of Yuruparí	Colombia
2010
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Acupuncture and moxibustion of traditional Chinese medicine	China
2009
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Qiang New Year festival	China
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Cheoyongmu	Republic of Korea
Katta Ashula	Uzbekistan
Ritual ceremony of the Voladores	Mexico
2008
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Andean cosmovision of the Kallawaya	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Nha Nhac, Vietnamese court music	Viet Nam
Oral and graphic expressions of the Wajapi	Brazil