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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Results : 13 elements corresponding to 3 regions and 8 countries

2019² – 2018² – 2015² – 2014² – 2012¹ – 2011² – 2009²

2019
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Rituals and practices associated with Kit Mikayi shrine	Kenya
Seperu folkdance and associated practices	Botswana
2018
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Enkipaata, Eunoto and Olng'esherr, three male rites of passage of the Maasai community	Kenya
Suri Jagek (observing the sun), traditional meteorological and astronomical practice based on the observation of the sun, moon and stars in reference to the local topography	Pakistan
2015
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Coaxing ritual for camels	Mongolia
Koogere oral tradition of the Basongora, Banyabindi and Batooro peoples	Uganda
2014
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Isukuti dance of Isukha and Idakho communities of Western Kenya	Kenya
Mapoyo oral tradition and its symbolic reference points within their ancestral territory	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
2012
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Noken multifunctional knotted or woven bag, handcraft of the people of Papua	Indonesia
2011
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Hezhen Yimakan storytelling	China
Saman dance	Indonesia
2009
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Traditional Li textile techniques: spinning, dyeing, weaving and embroidering	China
Traditions and practices associated with the Kayas in the sacred forests of the Mijikenda	Kenya