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 : 7 elements corresponding to 7 countries

2014¹ – 2011¹ – 2009¹ – 2008⁴

2014
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Al-Zajal, recited or sung poetry	Lebanon
2011
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Moorish epic T’heydinn	Mauritania
2009
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Irrigators’ tribunals of the Spanish Mediterranean coast: the Council of Wise Men of the plain of Murcia and the Water Tribunal of the plain of Valencia	Spain
2008
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Al-Sirah Al-Hilaliyyah epic	Egypt
Darangen epic of the Maranao people of Lake Lanao	Philippines
Iraqi Maqam	Iraq
Song of Sana’a	Yemen