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 : 13 elements corresponding to 14 countries

2018² – 2017¹ – 2016¹ – 2015² – 2014¹ – 2011⁴ – 2010¹ – 2009¹

2018
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Enkipaata, Eunoto and Olng'esherr, three male rites of passage of the Maasai community	Kenya
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Lum medicinal bathing of Sowa Rigpa, knowledge and practices concerning life, health and illness prevention and treatment among the Tibetan people in China	China
2017
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Mongolian traditional practices of worshipping the sacred sites	Mongolia
2016
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Yoga	India
2015
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Koogere oral tradition of the Basongora, Banyabindi and Batooro peoples	Uganda
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Majlis, a cultural and social space	United Arab Emirates – Saudi Arabia – Oman – Qatar
2014
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Mapoyo oral tradition and its symbolic reference points within their ancestral territory	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
2011
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Eshuva, Harákmbut sung prayers of Peru’s Huachipaire people	Peru
Secret society of the Kôrêdugaw, the rite of wisdom in Mali	Mali
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Traditional knowledge of the jaguar shamans of Yuruparí	Colombia
Tsiattista poetic duelling	Cyprus
2010
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Acupuncture and moxibustion of traditional Chinese medicine	China
2009
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Traditions and practices associated with the Kayas in the sacred forests of the Mijikenda	Kenya