During this year’s session, the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage inscribed 4 elements on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding, and 39 elements on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Members of the Committee, chaired by Mr Punchi Nilame Meegaswatte, Secretary-General of the Sri Lanka National Commission for UNESCO allotted a total of USD$554,440 as part of the International Assistance mechanism to 3 projects to further safeguard living heritage in Djibouti, Timor-Leste and Mongolia.
For the first time this year, the Federated States of Micronesia, Montenegro, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo, Denmark, Seychelles, Timor-Leste, Iceland and Haiti had an element presented for inscription on UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists, which now feature 630 elements corresponding to 140 countries.
Additions to the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
United Arab Emirates, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czechia, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Republic of Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Spain, Syrian Arab Republic: Falconry, a living human heritage (the inscription of this element have been extended to countries in bold)
