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 listed below, you can discover the nominations, photos and videos, together with Committee decisions and evidence of community consent.

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The designations employed in the texts and documents of the nomination presented by the submitting State Party or States Parties do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Committee nor UNESCO concerning a) the legal status of any country, territory, city or area, b) the legal status of its authorities or c) the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.

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2022
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Date palm, knowledge, skills, traditions and practices	United Arab Emirates – Bahrain – Egypt – Iraq – Jordan – Kuwait – Mauritania – Morocco – Oman – Palestine – Qatar – Saudi Arabia – Sudan – Tunisia – Yemen
2021
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Building and use of expanded dugout boats in the Soomaa region	Estonia
Carolinian wayfinding and canoe making	Micronesia (Federated States of)
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Pottery-related values, knowledge, lore and practices of the Awajún people	Peru
Truffle hunting and extraction in Italy, traditional knowledge and practice	Italy
2020
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Handmade weaving in Upper Egypt (Sa'eed)	Egypt
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
The Martinique yole, from construction to sailing practices, a model for heritage safeguarding	France
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Traditional skills, techniques and knowledge for the conservation and transmission of wooden architecture in Japan	Japan
Tree beekeeping culture	Poland – Belarus
Zlakusa pottery making, hand-wheel pottery making in the village of Zlakusa	Serbia
2019
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Date palm, knowledge, skills, traditions and practices	Bahrain – Egypt – Iraq – Jordan – Kuwait – Mauritania – Morocco – Oman – Palestine – Saudi Arabia – Sudan – Tunisia – United Arab Emirates – Yemen
2018
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Blaudruck/Modrotisk/Kékfestés/Modrotlač, resist block printing and indigo dyeing in Europe	Austria – Czechia – Germany – Hungary – Slovakia
Lum medicinal bathing of Sowa Rigpa, knowledge and practices concerning life, health and illness prevention and treatment among the Tibetan people in China	China
2017
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Artisanal processes and plant fibers techniques for talcos, crinejas and pintas weaving of the pinta’o hat	Panama
Konjic woodcarving	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
Margilan Crafts Development Centre, safeguarding of the atlas and adras making traditional technologies	Uzbekistan
2016
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Culture of Jeju Haenyeo (women divers)	Republic of Korea
2015
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Manufacture of cowbells	Portugal
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Traditional knowledge and technologies relating to the growing and processing of the curagua	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
2014
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Argan, practices and know-how concerning the argan tree	Morocco
Ebru, Turkish art of marbling	Türkiye
Traditional knowledge and skills in making Kyrgyz and Kazakh yurts (Turkic nomadic dwellings)	Kazakhstan – Kyrgyzstan
2013
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Traditional craftsmanship of the Mongol Ger and its associated customs	Mongolia
Washoku, traditional dietary cultures of the Japanese, notably for the celebration of New Year	Japan
2012
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
Xtaxkgakget Makgkaxtlawana: the Centre for Indigenous Arts and its contribution to safeguarding the intangible cultural heritage of the Totonac people of Veracruz, Mexico	Mexico
2009
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Scribing tradition in French timber framing	France
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Traditions and practices associated with the Kayas in the sacred forests of the Mijikenda	Kenya
2008
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Barkcloth making in Uganda	Uganda
Indonesian Kris	Indonesia
Woodcrafting knowledge of the Zafimaniry	Madagascar