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 : 45 elements corresponding to 30 countries

2018¹ – 2017² – 2016² – 2015³ – 2014² – 2012² – 2011⁴ – 2010⁹ – 2009¹¹ – 2008⁹

2018
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Reggae music of Jamaica	Jamaica
2017
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Punto	Cuba
Rebetiko	Greece
2016
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Chapei Dang Veng	Cambodia
Ma'di bowl lyre music and dance	Uganda
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
Aitysh/Aitys, art of improvisation	Kazakhstan – Kyrgyzstan
Al-Razfa, a traditional performing art	United Arab Emirates – Oman
2014
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Kazakh traditional art of Dombra Kuy	Kazakhstan
Kopachkata, a social dance from the village of Dramche, Pijanec	North Macedonia
2012
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Craftsmanship and performance art of the Tar, a long-necked string musical instrument	Azerbaijan
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
Moorish epic T’heydinn	Mauritania
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Fado, urban popular song of Portugal	Portugal
Mariachi, string music, song and trumpet	Mexico
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
Fandango's Living Museum	Brazil
2010
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Flamenco	Spain
Gagok, lyric song cycles accompanied by an orchestra	Republic of Korea
Kumiodori, traditional Okinawan musical theatre	Japan
Mongolian traditional art of Khöömei	Mongolia
Music of the Bakhshis of Khorasan	Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Pirekua, traditional song of the P’urhépecha	Mexico
Scissors dance	Peru
Semah, Alevi-Bektaşi ritual	Turkey
Sutartinės, Lithuanian multipart songs	Lithuania
2009
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Ca trù singing	Viet Nam
Mongol Tuuli, Mongolian epic	Mongolia
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Art of Azerbaijani Ashiq	Azerbaijan
Âşıklık (minstrelsy) tradition	Turkey
Farmers’ dance of China’s Korean ethnic group	China
Gagaku	Japan
Manas	China
Mongolian art of singing, Khoomei	China
Nanyin	China
Radif of Iranian music	Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Two-part singing and playing in the Istrian scale	Croatia
2008
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Art of Akyns, Kyrgyz epic tellers	Kyrgyzstan
Azerbaijani Mugham	Azerbaijan
Baul songs	Bangladesh
Guqin and its music	China
Iraqi Maqam	Iraq
Kabuki theatre	Japan
Ningyo Johruri Bunraku puppet theatre	Japan
Song of Sana’a	Yemen
Uyghur Muqam of Xinjiang	China