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.

You may also experience a conceptual, visual and interactive navigation through ‘Dive into Intangible Cultural Heritage’ interfaces which demonstrate the thematic interconnectedness between all the elements inscribed and their relation to nature or to threats.

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
Orteke, traditional performing art in Kazakhstan: dance, puppet and music	Kazakhstan
2015
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Coaxing ritual for camels	Mongolia
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)
2013
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Xooy, a divination ceremony among the Serer of Senegal	Senegal
2012
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Cultural practices and expressions linked to the balafon of the Senufo communities of Mali, Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire	Mali – Burkina Faso – Côte d'Ivoire
2011
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Esuwa, Harakbut sung prayers of Peru’s Wachiperi people	Peru
Yaokwa, the Enawene Nawe people's ritual for the maintenance of social and cosmic order	Brazil
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Mibu no Hana Taue, ritual of transplanting rice in Mibu, Hiroshima	Japan
Pilgrimage to the sanctuary of the Lord of Qoyllurit’i	Peru
2009
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Qiang New Year festival	China
Sanké mon, collective fishing rite of the Sanké	Mali
Traditions and practices associated with the Kayas in the sacred forests of the Mijikenda	Kenya
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Mongolian art of singing, Khoomei	China
Oku-noto no Aenokoto	Japan
Traditional Ainu dance	Japan
2008
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Oral heritage of Gelede	Benin – Nigeria – Togo
Samba de Roda of the Recôncavo of Bahia	Brazil