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 : 25 elements corresponding to 22 countries

2018⁶ – 2017⁹ – 2016¹ – 2015¹ – 2012¹ – 2011¹ – 2009⁵ – 2008¹

2018
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
As-Samer in Jordan	Jordan
Picking of iva grass on Ozren mountain	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Pottery skills of the women of Sejnane	Tunisia
Raiho-shin, ritual visits of deities in masks and costumes	Japan
Tamboradas drum-playing rituals	Spain
The skills related to perfume in Pays de Grasse: the cultivation of perfume plants, the knowledge and processing of natural raw materials, and the art of perfume composition	France
2017
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Art of Neapolitan ‘Pizzaiuolo’	Italy
Basel Carnival	Switzerland
Craftmanship of Estremoz clay figures	Portugal
Kazakh traditional Assyk games	Kazakhstan
Khaen music of the Lao people	Lao People's Democratic Republic
Kochari, traditional group dance	Armenia
Multipart singing of Horehronie	Slovakia
Pinisi, art of boatbuilding in South Sulawesi	Indonesia
Sega tambour of Rodrigues Island	Mauritius
2016
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Cossack’s songs of Dnipropetrovsk Region	Ukraine
2015
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Manufacture of cowbells	Portugal
2012
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
Xtaxkgakget Makgkaxtlawana: the Centre for Indigenous Arts and its contribution to safeguarding the intangible cultural heritage of the Totonac people of Veracruz, Mexico	Mexico
2011
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
Táncház method: a Hungarian model for the transmission of intangible cultural heritage	Hungary
2009
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Ca trù singing	Viet Nam
Cantu in paghjella, a secular and liturgical oral tradition of Corsica	France
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Lefkara laces or Lefkaritika	Cyprus
Two-part singing and playing in the Istrian scale	Croatia
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
Centre for traditional culture – school museum of Pusol pedagogic project	Spain
2008
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Cross-crafting and its symbolism	Lithuania