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UNESCO contributes to the safeguarding of Yemenis living heritage

26 August 2022

UNESCO contributes to the safeguarding of Yemenis living heritage

8 August 2021

Workshop on preparing nominations and international assistance

4 July 2021

Community-based inventorying workshop

Progress in implementing an eight-country capacity-building project in the Arab States and Africa

4 May 2015

Progress in implementing an eight-country capacity-building project in the Arab States and Africa

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Periodic reporting

On the implementation of the Convention

15/12/2013 (not submitted)
15/12/2022 (submitted)
15/12/2028

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Key references

Ratification of the Convention on

8 October 2007

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Listing of ICH

Song of Sana’a

Song of Sana’a (2008, RL)

6 elements inscribed

2025: Hadrami Dan gathering (RL)
2024: Henna: rituals, aesthetic and social practices (RL)
2023: Arts, skills and practices associated with engraving on metals (gold, silver and copper) (RL)
2022: Date palm, knowledge, skills, traditions and practices (RL)
2021: Arabic calligraphy: knowledge, skills and practices (RL)
2008: Song of Sana’a (RL)

On-going nomination(s)

2026: Oud instrument: practices, skills and performing arts (RL)
2026: Al Saafiyat and plant fibers: craft and social traditions (RL)
2026: Henna: rituals, aesthetic and social practices (RL)

Files pending priority ‘0’ treatment

Knowledge and practices related to coffee beans cultivation (RL)
Al sanbouk sailing boat: the craft and social traditions (RL)
The Nabati Arabic poetry: an oral expressive art (RL)

Project

Strengthening national capacities for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage in eight countries in Africa and the Arab Region: assessing needs and developing project proposals

1 May 2014 – 1 March 2019

Amount (US$) 259,419

Action plan for the safeguarding of the Song of Saana

1 November 2005 – 1 January 2009

Amount (US$) 96,513

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