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.

Full text search: The system will search the exact expression entered (i.e. ‘sustainable development’), except if you separate the terms by a comma so that the motor search one or the other expression or the two (i.e. ‘foodways, culinary practices’).

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Results : 21 elements corresponding to 19 countries

2016¹ – 2015¹ – 2011³ – 2010² – 2009⁶ – 2008⁸

2016
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Chapei Dang Veng	Cambodia
2015
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Koogere oral tradition of the Basongora, Banyabindi and Batooro peoples	Uganda
2011
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Eshuva, Harákmbut sung prayers of Peru’s Huachipaire people	Peru
Moorish epic T’heydinn	Mauritania
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Bećarac singing and playing from Eastern Croatia	Croatia
2010
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Music of the Bakhshis of Khorasan	Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Traditional Sohbet meetings	Turkey
2009
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Mongol Tuuli, Mongolian epic	Mongolia
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Art of Chinese seal engraving	China
Âşıklık (minstrelsy) tradition	Turkey
Chinese traditional architectural craftsmanship for timber-framed structures	China
Grand song of the Dong ethnic group	China
Ijele masquerade	Nigeria
2008
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Art of Akyns, Kyrgyz epic tellers	Kyrgyzstan
Cultural space of the Bedu in Petra and Wadi Rum	Jordan
Gule Wamkulu	Malawi – Mozambique – Zambia
Ifa divination system	Nigeria
Kankurang, Manding initiatory rite	Gambia – Senegal
Makishi masquerade	Zambia
Ningyo Johruri Bunraku puppet theatre	Japan
Polyphonic singing of the Aka Pygmies of Central Africa	Central African Republic