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.
2014 | |||
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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) |    | |
2013 | |||
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding | |||
| Nan Pa’ch ceremony | Guatemala | | |
2011 | |||
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding | |||
| Yaokwa, the Enawene Nawe people's ritual for the maintenance of social and cosmic order | Brazil | | |
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Traditional knowledge of the jaguar shamans of Yuruparí | Colombia | | |
2010 | |||
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Acupuncture and moxibustion of traditional Chinese medicine | China | | |
2009 | |||
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Cheoyongmu | Republic of Korea | | |
| Katta Ashula | Uzbekistan | | |
| Ritual ceremony of the Voladores | Mexico | | |
2008 | |||
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Andean cosmovision of the Kallawaya | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | | |
| Nha Nhac, Vietnamese court music | Viet Nam | | |
| Oral and graphic expressions of the Wajapi | Brazil | | |