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 : 31 elements corresponding to 23 countries

2017¹ – 2016¹ – 2015¹ – 2014⁵ – 2013⁴ – 2012⁵ – 2011⁴ – 2010³ – 2009⁴ – 2008³

2017
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
The art of Bài Chòi in Central Viet Nam	Viet Nam
2016
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Bhojpuri folk songs in Mauritius, Geet-Gawai	Mauritius
2015
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Koogere oral tradition of the Basongora, Banyabindi and Batooro peoples	Uganda
2014
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Al-Zajal, recited or sung poetry	Lebanon
Capoeira circle	Brazil
Nongak, community band music, dance and rituals in the Republic of Korea	Republic of Korea
Tchopa, sacrificial dance of the Lhomwe people of southern Malawi	Malawi
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
Safeguarding the carillon culture: preservation, transmission, exchange and awareness-raising	Belgium
2013
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Art of Đờn ca tài tử music and song in southern Viet Nam	Viet Nam
Men’s group Colindat, Christmas-time ritual	Republic of Moldova – Romania
Petrykivka decorative painting as a phenomenon of the Ukrainian ornamental folk art	Ukraine
Sankirtana, ritual singing, drumming and dancing of Manipur	India
2012
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Ichapekene Piesta, the biggest festival of San Ignacio de Moxos	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Marches of Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse	Belgium
Nachi no Dengaku, a religious performing art held at the Nachi fire festival	Japan
Venezuela's Dancing Devils of Corpus Christi	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
Worship of Hùng kings in Phú Thọ	Viet Nam
2011
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Chinese shadow puppetry	China
Mibu no Hana Taue, ritual of transplanting rice in Mibu, Hiroshima	Japan
Traditional knowledge of the jaguar shamans of Yuruparí	Colombia
Tsiattista poetic duelling	Cyprus
2010
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Hopping procession of Echternach	Luxembourg
Kalbelia folk songs and dances of Rajasthan	India
Parachicos in the traditional January feast of Chiapa de Corzo	Mexico
2009
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Akiu no Taue Odori	Japan
Dainichido Bugaku	Japan
Ramman, religious festival and ritual theatre of the Garhwal Himalayas, India	India
Traditional manufacturing of children’s wooden toys in Hrvatsko Zagorje	Croatia
2008
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Chopi Timbila	Mozambique
Guqin and its music	China
Wayang puppet theatre	Indonesia