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 |    | |
2013 | |||
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Annual pilgrimage to the mausoleum of Sidi ‘Abd el-Qader Ben Mohammed (Sidi Cheikh) | Algeria | | |
| Mediterranean diet | Cyprus – Croatia – Spain – Greece – Italy – Morocco – Portugal | | |
| Turkish coffee culture and tradition | Turkey | | |
| Washoku, traditional dietary cultures of the Japanese, notably for the celebration of New Year | Japan | | |
2012 | |||
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Al-Taghrooda, traditional Bedouin chanted poetry in the United Arab Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman | United Arab Emirates – Oman | | |
| Traditional weaving of the Ecuadorian toquilla straw hat | Ecuador | | |