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
Alheda'a, oral traditions of calling camel flocks	Saudi Arabia – Oman – United Arab Emirates
2021
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Visoko multipart singing from Dolen and Satovcha, South-western Bulgaria	Bulgaria
2020
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
Polyphonic Caravan, researching, safeguarding and promoting the Epirus polyphonic song	Greece
2017
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Multipart singing of Horehronie	Slovakia
2016
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Cossack’s songs of Dnipropetrovsk Region	Ukraine
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
Festival of folklore in Koprivshtitsa: a system of practices for heritage presentation and transmission	Bulgaria
Safeguarding of the folk music heritage by the Kodály concept	Hungary
2015
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Glasoechko, male two-part singing in Dolni Polog	North Macedonia
2014
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Cante Alentejano, polyphonic singing from Alentejo, southern Portugal	Portugal
2012
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Klapa multipart singing of Dalmatia, southern Croatia	Croatia
2010
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Ojkanje singing	Croatia
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Pirekua, traditional song of the P’urhépecha	Mexico
Sutartinės, Lithuanian multipart songs	Lithuania
2009
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Cantu in paghjella, a secular and liturgical oral tradition of Corsica	France
Suiti cultural space	Latvia
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Grand song of the Dong ethnic group	China
Hua’er	China
Seto Leelo, Seto polyphonic singing tradition	Estonia
Spring procession of Ljelje/Kraljice (queens) from Gorjani	Croatia
Two-part singing and playing in the Istrian scale	Croatia
2008
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Ahellil of Gourara	Algeria
Albanian folk iso-polyphony	Albania
Bistritsa Babi, archaic polyphony, dances and rituals from the Shoplouk region	Bulgaria
Canto a tenore, Sardinian pastoral songs	Italy
Cultural space and oral culture of the Semeiskie	Russian Federation
Georgian polyphonic singing	Georgia
Lakalaka, dances and sung speeches of Tonga	Tonga
Mystery play of Elche	Spain
Polyphonic singing of the Aka Pygmies of Central Africa	Central African Republic