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 : 22 elements corresponding to 5 regions and 14 countries

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2022
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Traditional Ahlat stonework	Türkiye
2018
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Traditional hand puppetry	Egypt
Yalli (Kochari, Tenzere), traditional group dances of Nakhchivan	Azerbaijan
2017
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Mongolian traditional practices of worshipping the sacred sites	Mongolia
Taskiwin, martial dance of the western High Atlas	Morocco
Whistled language	Türkiye
2016
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Cossack’s songs of Dnipropetrovsk Region	Ukraine
2015
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Coaxing ritual for camels	Mongolia
Glasoechko, male two-part singing in Dolni Polog	North Macedonia
Koogere oral tradition of the Basongora, Banyabindi and Batooro peoples	Uganda
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)
2011
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Folk long song performance technique of Limbe performances - circular breathing	Mongolia
Moorish epic T’heydinn	Mauritania
Naqqāli, Iranian dramatic story-telling	Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Saman dance	Indonesia
Traditional skills of building and sailing Iranian Lenj boats in the Persian Gulf	Iran (Islamic Republic of)
2010
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Meshrep	China
2009
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Cantu in paghjella, a secular and liturgical oral tradition of Corsica	France
Mongol Biyelgee, Mongolian traditional folk dance	Mongolia
Mongol Tuuli, Mongolian epic	Mongolia
Traditional Li textile techniques: spinning, dyeing, weaving and embroidering	China
Traditional music of the Tsuur	Mongolia