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.
2017 | |||
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List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding | |||
| Colombian-Venezuelan llano work songs | Colombia – Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) |    | |
2016 | |||
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Charrería, equestrian tradition in Mexico | Mexico | | |
| Falconry, a living human heritage | Germany – Saudi Arabia – Austria – Belgium – United Arab Emirates – Spain – France – Hungary – Italy – Kazakhstan – Morocco – Mongolia – Pakistan – Portugal – Qatar – Syrian Arab Republic – Republic of Korea – Czechia | | |
2015 | |||
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding | |||
| Coaxing ritual for camels | Mongolia | | |
| Manufacture of cowbells | Portugal | | |
| Traditional Vallenato music of the Greater Magdalena region | Colombia | | |
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Classical horsemanship and the High School of the Spanish Riding School Vienna | Austria | | |
| Epic art of Gorogly | Turkmenistan | | |
2013 | |||
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding | |||
| Chovqan, a traditional Karabakh horse-riding game in the Republic of Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan | | |
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Mediterranean diet | Cyprus – Croatia – Spain – Greece – Italy – Morocco – Portugal | | |
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 | |||
| Equitation in the French tradition | France | | |
2010 | |||
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Mongolian traditional art of Khöömei | Mongolia | | |
2009 | |||
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Mongolian art of singing, Khoomei | China | | |
2008 | |||
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Cultural space of the Bedu in Petra and Wadi Rum | Jordan | | |
| Cultural space of the Yaaral and Degal | Mali | | |
| Fujara and its music | Slovakia | | |
| Moussem of Tan-Tan | Morocco | | |
| Oxherding and oxcart traditions in Costa Rica | Costa Rica | | |
| Traditional music of the Morin Khuur | Mongolia | | |
| Urtiin Duu, traditional folk long song | China – Mongolia | | |