On 26 November 2018, ssirum/ssireum wrestling from North Korea and South Korea was jointly inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. An unprecedented event. Revered and practiced throughout the Korean peninsula, this sport has a...
The thirteenth session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (13.COM) will take place at the Swami Vivekananda International Convention Centre in Port Louis, Republic of Mauritius, from 26 November to 1 December 2018. During...
Held in Brussels on 1 and 2 October 2018, the Meeting of UNESCO Chairs Linked to the 2003 UNESCO Convention on the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage was intended to discuss about the pressing challenges in the ICH field and...
From 29 October to 7 November, 2018 the Intangible Cultural Heritage Section and UNESCO-UNEVOC are co-hosting a virtual conference on integrating the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) in technical and vocational education and training (TVET). The conference, which comes...
The UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Section is looking for an individual specialist to develop content for a clearinghouse on safeguarding intangible cultural heritage in formal and non-formal education, in the context of its program on Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage in...
The deadline (19 October 2018) is approaching for the 176 accredited non-governmental organizations and the 178 States Party to fill out the online questionnaire on the role of accredited NGOs under the Convention. This electronic consultation is organized as a...
Brochures on the ICH policies of UNESCO have been published in additional languages as part of an ICHCAP-supported project. The brochures, “Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development” and “Intangible Cultural Heritage and Gender,” have been recently translated into seven languages—Bhutani,...
The UNESCO Beijing Office held a training workshop on ICH inventorying from 26 September to 3 October 2018 in Pyongyang, The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Hosted by the National Authority for the Protection of Cultural Heritage in DPRK,...
The International Day of the World's Indigenous People's is well-timed for UNESCO to launch a special website dedicated to the international year of indigenous languages (IY2019), which will be commemorated by UNESCO’s members and partners throughout 2019. The website...
‘The people are the ones that embody and own the knowledge.’ That observation, made by Benjawan Buakwan, a researcher from the College of Local Wisdom at Thailand’s Thaksin University, illustrates one key aspect of intangible cultural heritage—and how quickly ideas...
