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 : 35 elements corresponding to 30 countries

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2018
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Dondang Sayang	Malaysia
Reggae music of Jamaica	Jamaica
Rūkada Nātya, traditional string puppet drama in Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka
2017
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Basel Carnival	Switzerland
Khaen music of the Lao people	Lao People's Democratic Republic
Organ craftsmanship and music	Germany
2016
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
Festival of folklore in Koprivshtitsa: a system of practices for heritage presentation and transmission	Bulgaria
2015
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Glasoechko, male two-part singing in Dolni Polog	North Macedonia
Traditional Vallenato music of the Greater Magdalena region	Colombia
2014
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Isukuti dance of Isukha and Idakho communities of Western Kenya	Kenya
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Kopachkata, a social dance from the village of Dramche, Pijanec	North Macedonia
2013
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Music of Terchová	Slovakia
2012
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Buddhist chanting of Ladakh: recitation of sacred Buddhist texts in the trans-Himalayan Ladakh region, Jammu and Kashmir, India	India
Fest-Noz, festive gathering based on the collective practice of traditional dances of Brittany	France
2011
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Bećarac singing and playing from Eastern Croatia	Croatia
Mariachi, string music, song and trumpet	Mexico
2010
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Human towers	Spain
Krakelingen and Tonnekensbrand, end-of-winter bread and fire feast at Geraardsbergen	Belgium
Ritual dramatic art of Ta‘zīye	Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Shrovetide door-to-door processions and masks in the villages of the Hlinecko area	Czechia
2009
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Rite of the Kalyady Tsars (Christmas Tsars)	Belarus
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Doina	Romania
Nestinarstvo, messages from the past: the Panagyr of Saints Constantine and Helena in the village of Bulgari	Bulgaria
Two-part singing and playing in the Istrian scale	Croatia
Xi’an wind and percussion ensemble	China
2008
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Andean cosmovision of the Kallawaya	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Carnival of Barranquilla	Colombia
Cultural space of Boysun District	Uzbekistan
Gbofe of Afounkaha, the music of the transverse trumps of the Tagbana community	Côte d'Ivoire
Maroon heritage of Moore Town	Jamaica
Mask dance of the drums from Drametse	Bhutan
Nha Nhac, Vietnamese court music	Viet Nam
Royal ancestral ritual in the Jongmyo shrine and its music	Republic of Korea
Royal ballet of Cambodia	Cambodia
Shashmaqom music	Uzbekistan – Tajikistan