International Training Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region under the auspices of UNESCO

List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding (as of 2018)

Source: UNESCO

List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding (as of 2015).pdf

2018
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Enkipaata, Eunoto and Olng'esherr, three male rites of passage of the Maasai community	Kenya
Knowledge and skills of the water measurers of the foggaras or water bailiffs of Touat and Tidikelt	Algeria
Lkhon Khol Wat Svay Andet	Cambodia
Shadow play	Syrian Arab Republic
Suri Jagek (observing the sun), traditional meteorological and astronomical practice based on the observation of the sun, moon and stars in reference to the local topography	Pakistan
Traditional hand puppetry	Egypt
Yalli (Kochari, Tenzere), traditional group dances of Nakhchivan	Azerbaijan
2017
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Al Azi, art of performing praise, pride and fortitude poetry	United Arab Emirates
Colombian-Venezuelan llano work songs	Colombia – Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
Dikopelo folk music of Bakgatla ba Kgafela in Kgatleng District	Botswana
Mongolian traditional practices of worshipping the sacred sites	Mongolia
Taskiwin, martial dance of the western High Atlas	Morocco
Whistled language	Turkey
2016
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Bisalhães black pottery manufacturing process	Portugal
Chapei Dang Veng	Cambodia
Cossack’s songs of Dnipropetrovsk Region	Ukraine
Ma'di bowl lyre music and dance	Uganda
2015
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Coaxing ritual for camels	Mongolia
Glasoechko, male two-part singing in Dolni Polog	The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Koogere oral tradition of the Basongora, Banyabindi and Batooro peoples	Uganda
Manufacture of cowbells	Portugal
Traditional Vallenato music of the Greater Magdalena region	Colombia
2014
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Isukuti dance of Isukha and Idakho communities of Western Kenya	Kenya
Male-child cleansing ceremony of the Lango of central northern Uganda	Uganda
Mapoyo oral tradition and its symbolic reference points within their ancestral territory	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
2013
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Chovqan, a traditional Karabakh horse-riding game in the Republic of Azerbaijan	Azerbaijan
Empaako tradition of the Batooro, Banyoro, Batuku, Batagwenda and Banyabindi of western Uganda	Uganda
Mongolian calligraphy	Mongolia
Nan Pa’ch ceremony	Guatemala
2012
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Ala-kiyiz and Shyrdak, art of Kyrgyz traditional felt carpets	Kyrgyzstan
Bigwala, gourd trumpet music and dance of the Busoga Kingdom in Uganda	Uganda
Earthenware pottery-making skills in Botswana’s Kgatleng District	Botswana
Noken multifunctional knotted or woven bag, handcraft of the people of Papua	Indonesia
2011
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Al Sadu, traditional weaving skills in the United Arab Emirates	United Arab Emirates
Eshuva, Harákmbut sung prayers of Peru’s Huachipaire people	Peru
Folk long song performance technique of Limbe performances - circular breathing	Mongolia
Hezhen Yimakan storytelling	China
Moorish epic T’heydinn	Mauritania
Naqqāli, Iranian dramatic story-telling	Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Saman dance	Indonesia
Secret society of the Kôrêdugaw, the rite of wisdom in Mali	Mali
Traditional skills of building and sailing Iranian Lenj boats in the Persian Gulf	Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Yaokwa, the Enawene Nawe people's ritual for the maintenance of social and cosmic order	Brazil
2010
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Meshrep	China
Ojkanje singing	Croatia
Watertight-bulkhead technology of Chinese junks	China
Wooden movable-type printing of China	China
2009
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Ca trù singing	Viet Nam
Cantu in paghjella, a secular and liturgical oral tradition of Corsica	France
Mongol Biyelgee, Mongolian traditional folk dance	Mongolia
Mongol Tuuli, Mongolian epic	Mongolia
Qiang New Year festival	China
Rite of the Kalyady Tsars (Christmas Tsars)	Belarus
Sanké mon, collective fishing rite of the Sanké	Mali
Suiti cultural space	Latvia
Traditional design and practices for building Chinese wooden arch bridges	China
Traditional Li textile techniques: spinning, dyeing, weaving and embroidering	China
Traditional music of the Tsuur	Mongolia
Traditions and practices associated with the Kayas in the sacred forests of the Mijikenda	Kenya