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.

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Results : 115 elements corresponding to 66 countries

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2018
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Lkhon Khol Wat Svay Andet	Cambodia
Traditional hand puppetry	Egypt
Yalli (Kochari, Tenzere), traditional group dances of Nakhchivan	Azerbaijan
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Chidaoba, wrestling in Georgia	Georgia
Dondang Sayang	Malaysia
Horse and camel Ardhah	Oman
Mooba dance of the Lenje ethnic group of Central Province of Zambia	Zambia
Mwinoghe, joyous dance	Malawi
Raiho-shin, ritual visits of deities in masks and costumes	Japan
Reggae music of Jamaica	Jamaica
Ritual and festive expressions of the Congo culture	Panama
Rūkada Nātya, traditional string puppet drama in Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka
Tamboradas drum-playing rituals	Spain
2017
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Taskiwin, martial dance of the western High Atlas	Morocco
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Basel Carnival	Switzerland
Punto	Cuba
Sega tambour of Rodrigues Island	Mauritius
Xoan singing of Phú Thọ province, Viet Nam	Viet Nam
Zaouli, popular music and dance of the Guro communities in Côte d’Ivoire	Côte d'Ivoire
2016
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Almezmar, drumming and dancing with sticks	Saudi Arabia
Mangal Shobhajatra on Pahela Baishakh	Bangladesh
Rumba in Cuba, a festive combination of music and dances and all the practices associated	Cuba
Tahteeb, stick game	Egypt
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
Traditional Vallenato music of the Greater Magdalena region	Colombia
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Al-Razfa, a traditional performing art	United Arab Emirates – Oman
Alardah Alnajdiyah, dance, drumming and poetry in Saudi Arabia	Saudi Arabia
Three genres of traditional dance in Bali	Indonesia
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
Al-Ayyala, a traditional performing art of the Sultanate of Oman and the United Arab Emirates	Oman – United Arab Emirates
Baile Chino	Chile
Coming forth of the masks and puppets in Markala	Mali
Gwoka: music, song, dance and cultural practice representative of Guadeloupean identity	France
Kopachkata, a social dance from the village of Dramche, Pijanec	North Macedonia
Ritual and ceremonies of Sebeïba in the oasis of Djanet, Algeria	Algeria
Ritual dance of the royal drum	Burundi
Traditional Mauritian Sega	Mauritius
2013
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Nan Pa’ch ceremony	Guatemala
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Commemoration feast of the finding of the True Holy Cross of Christ	Ethiopia
Xooy, a divination ceremony among the Serer of Senegal	Senegal
2012
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Bigwala, gourd trumpet music and dance of the Busoga Kingdom in Uganda	Uganda
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
Cultural practices and expressions linked to the balafon of the Senufo communities of Mali, Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire	Mali – Burkina Faso – Côte d'Ivoire
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
Strategy for training coming generations of Fujian puppetry practitioners	China
2011
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Hezhen Yimakan storytelling	China
Moorish epic T’heydinn	Mauritania
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Ceremonial Keşkek tradition	Turkey
Jultagi, tightrope walking	Republic of Korea
Pilgrimage to the sanctuary of the Lord of Qoyllurit’i	Peru
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
Fandango's Living Museum	Brazil
2010
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Al-Bar’ah, music and dance of Oman Dhofari valleys	Oman
Chhau dance	India
Gagok, lyric song cycles accompanied by an orchestra	Republic of Korea
Gióng festival of Phù Ðông and Sóc temples	Viet Nam
Kırkpınar oil wrestling festival	Turkey
Kumiodori, traditional Okinawan musical theatre	Japan
Pahlevani and Zoorkhanei rituals	Iran (Islamic Republic of)
2009
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Ca trù singing	Viet Nam
Qiang New Year festival	China
Rite of the Kalyady Tsars (Christmas Tsars)	Belarus
Sanké mon, collective fishing rite of the Sanké	Mali
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Âşıklık (minstrelsy) tradition	Turkey
Candombe and its socio-cultural space: a community practice	Uruguay
Farmers’ dance of China’s Korean ethnic group	China
Gagaku	Japan
Hayachine Kagura	Japan
Ijele masquerade	Nigeria
Jeju Chilmeoridang Yeongdeunggut	Republic of Korea
Karagöz	Turkey
Maloya	France
Namsadang Nori	Republic of Korea
Nestinarstvo, messages from the past: the Panagyr of Saints Constantine and Helena in the village of Bulgari	Bulgaria
Ritual ceremony of the Voladores	Mexico
Tibetan opera	China
Xi’an wind and percussion ensemble	China
2008
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Ahellil of Gourara	Algeria
Al-Sirah Al-Hilaliyyah epic	Egypt
Andean cosmovision of the Kallawaya	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Azerbaijani Mugham	Azerbaijan
Baul songs	Bangladesh
Carnival of Barranquilla	Colombia
Carnival of Binche	Belgium
Chopi Timbila	Mozambique
Cultural space of Sosso-Bala	Guinea
Cultural space of the Brotherhood of the Holy Spirit of the Congos of Villa Mella	Dominican Republic
El Güegüense	Nicaragua
Gbofe of Afounkaha, the music of the transverse trumps of the Tagbana community	Côte d'Ivoire
Gule Wamkulu	Malawi – Mozambique – Zambia
Ifa divination system	Nigeria
Iraqi Maqam	Iraq
Kabuki theatre	Japan
Kankurang, Manding initiatory rite	Gambia – Senegal
Kun Qu opera	China
Kutiyattam, Sanskrit theatre	India
La Tumba Francesa	Cuba
Language, dance and music of the Garifuna	Belize – Guatemala – Honduras – Nicaragua
Mak Yong theatre	Malaysia
Maroon heritage of Moore Town	Jamaica
Mask dance of the drums from Drametse	Bhutan
Mbende Jerusarema dance	Zimbabwe
Mevlevi Sema ceremony	Turkey
Nha Nhac, Vietnamese court music	Viet Nam
Nôgaku theatre	Japan
Oral heritage of Gelede	Benin – Nigeria – Togo
Pansori epic chant	Republic of Korea
Patum of Berga	Spain
Polyphonic singing of the Aka Pygmies of Central Africa	Central African Republic
Ramlila, the traditional performance of the Ramayana	India
Royal ancestral ritual in the Jongmyo shrine and its music	Republic of Korea
Royal ballet of Cambodia	Cambodia
Samba de Roda of the Recôncavo of Bahia	Brazil
Shashmaqom music	Uzbekistan – Tajikistan
Space of gong culture	Viet Nam
Uyghur Muqam of Xinjiang	China
Vimbuza healing dance	Malawi