Calendar of Activities for 2025 and 2026

The following CPA and Commonwealth activities are scheduled. However all activities are subject to last minute changes or cancelations. Please contact the CPA Headquarters Secretariat via hq.sec@cpahq.org for details of forthcoming conferences and events or alternatively head to our Events or News pages.

For a list of the timings for key International UN Days please visit the UN site.

Forthcoming Events and Activities

2025

NOVEMBER

• 22nd Annual Conference of the CPA India Region Zone-III, Kohima, Nagaland, India, 9 to 15 November 2025
• 2025 UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) COP30, Brazil, 10 to 21 November 2025
• International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women – 16 Days of Activism, 25 November 2025
• CPA Conference on ‘The Role of Parliament in Shaping the Future of Responsible Artificial Intelligence’, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – in partnership with the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), 28 to 30 November 2025

DECEMBER

• International Day of Disabled Persons, 3 December 2025
• CPA Parliamentary Academy Residency Programme for Members (Practice & Procedure), Trinidad and Tobago, 7 to 12 December 2025
• UN Human Rights Day, 10 December 2025

2026

JANUARY

• 28th Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth (CSPOC), Delhi, India, January 2026 (dates TBC)
• Canadian Presiding Officers Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 28 to 31 January 2026

FEBRUARY

• 2nd Joint CPA Asia and CPA South-East Asia Regional Conference, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan – theme: ‘Parliaments of the Future: Redefining Democracy through Trust, Inclusion, Innovation and Peace’, 3 to 7 February 2026
• CPA Parliamentary Academy Residency Programme for Members (Practice & Procedure), Adelaide, South Australia, 9 to 13 February 2026 
• Commonwealth Law Ministers’ Meeting (CLMM), Denarau, Fiji (Commonwealth Secretariat), 9 to 13 February 2026

MARCH

• International Women's Day – theme TBC, 8 March 2026
• Commonwealth Day – theme TBC, 9 March 2026
• 74th Westminster Seminar on Effective Parliaments, London, UK (CPA UK event), 9 to 13 March 2026
• 70th Session on the Commission of the Status of Women (CSW), New York, USA, 9 to 20 March 2026

APRIL

• 152nd IPU Assembly, Istanbul, Türkiye, 15 to 19 April 2026
• CPA Small Branches Workshop, The Maldives, 27 to 29 April 2026

JUNE

• International Day of Parliamentarism / World Parliament Day (IPU initiative), 30 June 2026

JULY

• 62nd CPA Canada Regional Conference, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada plus the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians (CWP) Canada Regional Meeting, 4 to 10 July 2026
• 23rd Commonwealth Games 2026, Glasgow, Scotland, 23 July to 2 Aug 2026

SEPTEMBER

• International Day of Democracy, 15 September 2026

DATES TBC

• 28th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), Antigua and Barbuda
• 69th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, Cape Town, South Africa

Updated 30/10/2025