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

OCTOBER

• G20 Parliamentary Speakers’ Summit (P20), Cape Town, South Africa, 1 to 3 October 2025
• 68th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, Barbados (including 41st CPA Small Branches Conference; 9th Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians (CWP) Conference and Commonwealth Parliamentarians with Disabilities (CPwD) meetings; CPA General Assembly; CPA Executive Committee meetings; and the 59th Society of Clerks at the Table (SoCATT) meetings), 5 to 12 October 2025
• 151st Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly, Geneva, Switzerland, 19 to 23 October 2025
• UN Day, 24 October 2025

NOVEMBER

• 2025 UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) COP30, Brazil, TBC 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

• 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

JUNE

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

JULY

• 23rd Commonwealth Games 2026, Glasgow, Scotland, 23 July to 2 Aug 2026

DATES TBC

• 28th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), Antigua and Barbuda

Updated 02/10/2025