While physical distancing and confinement are affecting the way we live, some communities are finding creative ways to adapt to the circumstances and continue practicing their living heritage. In line with UNESCO’s response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and its...
While we are currently going through extraordinary conditions of lockdown on a global scale due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, we are also seeing the ways in which the impact of this crisis goes beyond our physical health. Festivals and...
The deadline of 31 March has past for submitting nominations to the Lists of the 2003 Convention, proposals to the Register for Good Safeguarding Practices and Requests for International Assistance for examination by the Intergovernmental Committee in November/December 2021. As...
"Each Language Has its Own Unique and Incomparable History" (Yalitza Aparicio, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Indigenous Peoples) While the practice and transmission of living heritage contributes to the vitality, strength, and well-being of indigenous communities, language is the principal vehicle...
Living heritage can be a powerful source of resilience against changing climatic conditions. In the Hindu Kush mountain ranges of Pakistan, the Kalasha people practice suri jagek—a meteorological and astronomical knowledge system based on observing the sun, moon, stars, and...
Between 2015 and 2019, UNESCO granted emergency international assistance of US$299,972 to prepare an inventory of the intangible cultural heritage present in Côte d’Ivoire. This project, implemented by the Ivorian Cultural Heritage Office, allowed the training of more than four...
The Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage ended its fourteenth session, which took place in the Colombian capital under the Chair María Claudia López Sorzano. The Committee adopted guidelines for safeguarding ICH in emergency situations such...
The fourteenth Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage(14.COM), was held from 9 to 14 December in Bogota. The committee members for this session were from Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Cameroon, China, Colombia, Cuba, Cyprus, Djibouti, Guatemala, Jamaica,...
Since the ratification of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage by Palestine in December 2011, UNESCO has accompanied national stakeholders in the implementation of the Convention by providing advice for the elaboration of a national...
The complete set of documents has been published online for the fourteenth session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage on 8 November 2019. Available in the two working languages of the Committee (English and...
