Crafts-women have been the gatekeepers of traditions and cultures for centuries. However, in reality, facing various family responsibilities, primary employment and rapid changes of the globalizing world, crafts-women have to juggle several duties in addition to ensuring that their cultures,...
Living heritage—music and dance, rituals, knowledge about our environment, etc.—is everywhere around us. UNESCO is conducting a survey to understand how living heritage is used for teaching and learning in primary and secondary schools in the Asia-Pacific. This survey was...
A sub-regional meeting for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage (ICH) through formal and non-formal education in Central Asia was held at the Park Hotel in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, from 18 to 19 June 2019. As a two-day workshop, the objective was to...
UNESCO will be accepting proposals for innovative projects in the framework of its 10th IFCD call for applications until 13 June 2019 (midnight, Paris time). The International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFCD) is a multi-donor fund established by the UNESCO...
The UNESCO Living Heritage Entity is looking for an individual specialist to revise and enrich an information sheet on education policy and intangible cultural heritage. Proposals should reach UNESCO by 24 May 2019. Context In the context of implementing the...
UNESCO Phnom Penh Office, in close collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts, will hold a workshop from 11 to 13 March 2019 in Siem Reap on “The Status of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in World Heritage Sites...
The publication “Safeguarding the Intangible Cultural Heritage for Sustainable Development in Tuvalu” is a report the first intangible cultural heritage (ICH) workshop held in Funafuti in 2017. Linking its discussions to the Tuvalu National Culture Policy (TNCP): Strategic Plan 2018...
The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages to raise global attention on the critical risks confronting indigenous languages and its significance for sustainable development, reconciliation, good governance, and peace building. The 2019 celebration...
Meeting in Mauritius until 1 December, the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage inscribed eleven elements from the Asia-Pacific region on the Lists of UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage. Among them, two elements have been added to...
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...
