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.
2016 | |||
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Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Valencia Fallas festivity | Spain |    | |
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices | |||
| Community project of safeguarding the living culture of Rovinj/Rovigno: the Batana Ecomuseum | Croatia | | |
2015 | |||
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Copper craftsmanship of Lahij | Azerbaijan | | |
2014 | |||
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Traditional agricultural practice of cultivating the ‘vite ad alberello’ (head-trained bush vines) of the community of Pantelleria | Italy | | |
| Ví and Giặm folk songs of Nghệ Tĩnh | Viet Nam | | |
2011 | |||
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding | |||
| Hezhen Yimakan storytelling | China | | |
| Moorish epic T’heydinn | Mauritania | | |
| Saman dance | Indonesia | | |
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Tsiattista poetic duelling | Cyprus | | |
2010 | |||
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Aalst carnival | Belgium | | |
| Peking opera | China | | |
2008 | |||
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Cocolo dance drama tradition | Dominican Republic | | |
| Palestinian Hikaye | Palestine | | |
| Song of Sana’a | Yemen | | |