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

JANUARY

• Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth (CSPOC) Standing Committee, Guernsey, 9 to 12 January 2025
• Webinar: Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians (CWP) British Islands and Mediterranean Region Webinar on ‘Gender quota mechanisms in Parliaments’, 20 January 2025. Online event from 1230-1345. Click to register.
• Caribbean Clerks’ Programme, Grenada, 21 to 23 January 2025
• International Education Day, 24 January 2025
• CPA UK: Artificial Intelligence in Security Workshop in partnership with Chatham House, London, UK, 28 to 30 January 2025

FEBRUARY

• First Joint CPA Asia and CPA South-East Asia Regional Conference, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, 6 to 10 February 2025
• CPA Parliamentary Academy: Advanced Professional Development and Skills-building Residency Programme, Valetta, Malta, 23 February to 1 March 2025

MARCH

• International Women's Day, 8 March 2025
• Commonwealth Day, 10 March 2025
• 73rd Westminster Seminar, UK Parliament (CPA UK event), 10 to 14 March 2025
• 69th Session on the Commission on the Status of Women, New York, USA, 10 to 21 March 2025

APRIL

• CPA Small Branches Workshop, Douglas, Isle of Man, 1 to 4 April 2025
• 150th IPU Assembly and related meetings, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 5 to 9 April 2025
• Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians Workshop, Nassau, The Bahamas, 28 April or 5 May 2025 (tbc).

JUNE

• World Parliament Day, 30 June 2025

JULY

• CPA Parliamentary Academy: Advanced Residency Programme for Leadership in Parliament for Clerks and Officials, Wellington, New Zealand, 7 to 11 July 2025
• 61st CPA Canada Regional Conference, Québec City, Québec, Canada, 19 to 25 July 2025
• Sixth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament, Switzerland (every five years), 29 to 31 July 2025
• 54th Presiding Officers and Clerks Conference (POCC) for Australia and Pacific Regions, Nauru, TBC July 2025
• 19th Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth (CSPOC) Africa Region, Parliament of Botswana, TBC July 2025

AUGUST

• International Youth Day, 12 August 2025

SEPTEMBER

• International Day of Democracy, 15 September 2025

OCTOBER

• 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), TBC October 2025
• 151st IPU Assembly, Geneva, Switzerland, 6 to 13 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
• 41st CPA Australia and Pacific Regional Conference, location TBC, Date November 2025

DECEMBER

• International Day of Disabled Persons, 3 December 2025
• UN Human Rights Day, 10 December 2025

2026

JANUARY

• 28th Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth (CSPOC), Delhi, India, 3 to 6 January 2026

Updated 25/11/2024