Possibilities and limits of the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage with the international system of human rights protection

Introduction: the article is devoted to the possibilities of the international system of human rights protection in the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage. The author aims to explore the limits of the international system of human rights protection in the absence of direct reference to the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage in the international human rights instruments. Methods: the methodological framework for the study was general scientific (the method of logical and system analysis, dialectical method) and specific scientific (the formal legal method, the method of legal modeling and forecasting) methods of cognition. Results: the article investigates the problems of a conceptual nature that arise when using the human rights mechanisms in the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage, and suggests the ways of overcoming them. Conclusions: even in the absence of explicit reference to the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage in the international human rights instruments of a universal and regional character, the international system for the protection of human rights is considered to be an effective means of protecting the cultural rights and, consequently, the cultural identity, which is the basis of intangible cultural heritage.