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 : 14 elements corresponding to 14 countries

2017² – 2016² – 2014² – 2012¹ – 2011¹ – 2009⁴ – 2008²

2017
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Mongolian traditional practices of worshipping the sacred sites	Mongolia
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Kumbh Mela	India
2016
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Khidr Elias feast and its vows	Iraq
Practices related to the Viet beliefs in the Mother Goddesses of Three Realms	Viet Nam
2014
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)
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Coming forth of the masks and puppets in Markala	Mali
2012
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Nachi no Dengaku, a religious performing art held at the Nachi fire festival	Japan
2011
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Pilgrimage to the sanctuary of the Lord of Qoyllurit’i	Peru
2009
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Sanké mon, collective fishing rite of the Sanké	Mali
Traditions and practices associated with the Kayas in the sacred forests of the Mijikenda	Kenya
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Gesar epic tradition	China
Places of memory and living traditions of the Otomí-Chichimecas people of Tolimán: the Peña de Bernal, guardian of a sacred territory	Mexico
2008
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Carnival of Oruro	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Kankurang, Manding initiatory rite	Gambia – Senegal