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 | |||
| Carnival of El Callao, a festive representation of a memory and cultural identity | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) |    | |
| Music and dance of the merengue in the Dominican Republic | Dominican Republic | | |
2013 | |||
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| La Parranda de San Pedro de Guarenas y Guatire | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | | |
2012 | |||
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Venezuela's Dancing Devils of Corpus Christi | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | | |
2009 | |||
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Carnaval de Negros y Blancos | Colombia | | |
| Places of memory and living traditions of the Otomí-Chichimecas people of Tolimán: the Peña de Bernal, guardian of a sacred territory | Mexico | | |
2008 | |||
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Carnival of Oruro | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | | |
| Mbende Jerusarema dance | Zimbabwe | | |
| Oral heritage and cultural manifestations of the Zápara people | Ecuador – Peru | | |
| Vimbuza healing dance | Malawi | | |