Meeting in Mauritius until 1 December, the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, inscribed this morning seven elements on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding. The List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need ›››

The Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, meeting in Port Louis (Mauritius), has decided to inscribe traditional Korean wrestling, ssirum/ssireum, on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, on the basis of a ›››

UNESCO’s facilitators are central to the success of its global capacity-building programme. Since the creation of the network in 2011, UNESCO’s facilitators have provided training and advisory services in more than 100 countries and delivered more than 250 workshops around the world. A roundtable sid ›››

From 26 November to 1 December 2018, the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage will come together for its thirteenth session in Port Louis, Republic of Mauritius. Nearly 800 participants – representatives of States Parties, non-governmental organizations, cultural institutions and other stakeholders – ›››

The Ministry of Culture of Senegal and the UNESCO Office in Dakar organized from 15 to 22 October 2018 a capacity-building workshop on community-based inventorying of intangible cultural heritage at the Blaise Senghor Cultural Centre in Dakar. 15 stakeholders including directors and associates of regional ›››

The UNESCO Office in Nairobi, the Kenya National Commission for UNESCO and the National Museum of Kenya organized a community-based inventorying workshop from 8 to 23 October in Lamu, Kenya. The workshop, facilitated by a UNESCO-trained intangible cultural heritage facilitator, strengthened the capacity ›››

The project “Strengthening the capacities of Eritrea for implementing the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage” made major strides towards raising safeguarding capacities on a national level. Three capacity-building activities were organized between 2014 and 2018, equipping a wide range of ›››

The Secretariat of the 2003 Convention published online the 2018 Edition of the Basic Texts in the six official languages of UNESCO. This new edition contains updates resulting from resolutions of the seventh session of the General Assembly of the States Parties to ›››

The complete set of documents has been published online for the thirteenth session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage on 29 October 2018. Available in the two working languages of the Committee (English and French), the documents ›››

A meeting held on 22 and 23 October 2018 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris will kick start the project ‘Community based inventorying of intangible cultural heritage in urban contexts’. The project seeks to contribute to the international debate on safeguarding living heritage in urban con ›››