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Trade Guides for the Pacific and Sub-Saharan Africa now online

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CPA joins GLOBE to enhance participation of Parliamentarians at UN Climate Conference in Mexico

The CPA has joined GLOBE in calling for restrictions on Parliamentarians attending the UN Climate Change Conference in Mexico to be lifted. GLOBE and CPA have asked the UNFCCC to grant parliamentarians better recognizition by creating a new category. Read the Accreditation of Legislators Submission here...

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Annual Conference

The CPA Kenya Branch will host the 56th CPA Plenary Conference "Parliament and Development in the 21st Century: Thus far and beyond", taking place between the 10th and 19th of September, 2010.

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The Parliamentarian Issue 2/2010

The Journal of Commonwealth Parliamentarians and Legislatures is published and distributed to all Members at the end of each quarter. Articles and reports contributed by Members and parliamentary staff inform their colleagues in other Houses about significant constitutional, parliamentary and political developments.

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CPA Update

The Association's electronic newsletter is issued approximately monthly to inform Members about CPA programmes and meetings.

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First Reading

The CPA newsletter is published and distributed to all Members up to three times a year to brief them on CPA developments and Commonwealth political news.

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Latest News

56th CPC: Plenary Data Papers now online

The topics are as follows: "Migration and Development: The Challenge of the 21st Century" and "A Call to the Commonwealth".

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56th CPC: 30th Small Branches Conference Data Papers now online

Topics include "The Effect of Political Corruption in Small States" and "The Challenges of Sovereignty in Small States".

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News Release

56th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference

Nairobi, Kenya, 10-19 September, 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Kenya’s Grand Coalition will greet more than 700 Commonwealth Parliamentarians in September when President H.E. Hon. Mwai Kibaki, CGH, MP, and Prime Minister Hon. Raila Odinga, MP, address the 56th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference in Nairobi.

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56th CPC Conference Workshop Papers released

Workshop Topics include "The Role of Parliament In Peace Building", "Parliamentarians and Natural Desaster Management", "Energy and Environment" and "The Commonwealth and the Emerging New World Economic Order".

To view the Workshop Data Papers for the 56th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, please click here...

The Topics for the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians include "Strategies to increase Womens Representation in Parliament" and Reform of Political Parties- working towards Democracy".

For the CWP Data papers, please click here...