ities, creates a sense of belonging and provides an opportunity for practitioners to produce and share food in abundance. Access to the sacred drum is restricted by customs and can only be permitted by the High Priest (Mbedzi). U.2: The factors displaying the need for urgent safeguarding of the element are demonstrated. The viability of the ele...6 December 2024
Asunción
8.COM : Examination of proposals for selection to the Register of Best Safeguarding Practices
unity itself is not deemed necessary by the State Party; P.8: The Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment evaluated the programme’s final results, even if concrete information on the project’s impacts on the viability of intangible cultural heritage is not provided; independent assessment should be give...7 December 2013
Baku
Social practices, rituals and festive events
stures and words, recitations, songs or dances, special clothing, processions, animal sacrifice, special food. Social practices, rituals and festive events are strongly affected by the changes communities undergo in modern societies because they depend so much on the broad participation of practitioners and others in the communities themselves. Pr......31 May 2018
First report of Mali on the status of the element 'Sanké mon, collective fishing rite of the Sanké’
and the last two performances of the Sanké mon element have been disturbed. In addition, it is noted that the food routes in the water have been obstructed, the city of San has experienced rapid urbanization and youth disinterest, and there has been lack of water in the pond due to low rainfall. Some elements have been lost (e.g. men disguised as...
Calendar of events of the nineteenth session of the Intergovernmental Committee
Wednesday 4 December13:1514:15Certificate ceremonyUNESCOPlenary room Wednesday 4 December13:1514:15 Roundtable ‘Exploring connections – bringing foodways to a global platform’UNESCORoom 9 de Julio Wednesday 4 December13:1514:15General AssemblyICH NGO ForumRoom Copa America Wednesday 4 December13:1514:15Roundtable ‘Modern interpretations and...Calendar of events: English|French Access the photo album Certificate Ceremony photos...11 March 2025
ural heritage and sustainable development at the national level VI.1 Inclusive social development VI.1.1 Food security VI.1.2 Health care VI.1.3 Quality education VI.1.4 Gender equality VI.1.5 Access to clean and safe water and sustainable water use VI.2 Inclusive economic development VI.2.1 Income generation and sustainable livelihoods VI....Download Official texts:English|French|Spanish|Russian in preparation|Arabic in preparation|Chinese in preparation Compilation of basic texts: Basic texts download...29 January 2025
eritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding, as follows: U.2: The threats described, including poverty, food scarcity, diminishing natural resources, economic uncertainty, reduced occasions for wearing the ponchos and disinterest among the young in making them, are general issues of many countries and not specific to the multi-coloured poncho; U.3:...7 December 2012
Paris
UNESCO launches platform on living heritage and the COVID-19 pandemic
heritage. In Georgia, traditional feasts continue to take place online, with tables of traditional food and drinks arranged in front of computer screens and toasts performed virtually. Social networks are playing a prominent role in helping people stay connected while being physically apart. For folk singers in Rajasthan, India, who must often tr... international
7 May 2020
stones for house construction and threshing of sorghum or wheat. The initiator of the task prepares food for the participants and in most cases it becomes a very elaborate event with singing, poetry and ululation accompanying the communal work. The element strengthens family ties and encourages ethnic solidarity; even in the case of individuals wit...7 December 2012
Paris
mic order of the group; those exchanges constitute the Yaokwa ritual and provide the main source of food for both the spirits and the Enawene Nawe themselves. Between 2007 and 2009, construction began on eight hydroelectric plants that damaged fish stocks in the region, thus jeopardizing the ritual and the source of food of this indigenous group. T...