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

• 25 November 2025: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women – 16 Days of Activism 
• 25 November 2025: CPA webinar: Quotas and other Positive Action Measures to Advance Gender Equality Across the Commonwealth
• 28 to 30 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)

DECEMBER

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

2026

JANUARY

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

FEBRUARY

• 3 to 7 February 2026: 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’ 
• 7 to 13 February 2026: CPA Parliamentary Academy Residency Programme for Members (Professional Development and Skills-Building), Adelaide, South Australia 
• 8 to 10 February 2026: Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians (CWP) British Islands and Mediterranean Regional Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland - under the theme ‘Power & Peace: Protecting Our Mental Health in Public Life’
• 9 to 12 February 2026: Commonwealth Law Ministers’ Meeting (CLMM), Denarau, Fiji (Commonwealth Secretariat)
• 20 February 2026: Commonwealth Parliamentarians with Disabilities (CPwD) British Islands and Mediterranean (BIM) Regional Forum, Scotland

MARCH

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

APRIL

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

MAY

• 17 May 2026: International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia
• 26 to 28 May 2026: Commonwealth Parliamentarians with Disabilities (CPwD) Colloquium 2026, Western Cape, South Africa

JUNE

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

JULY

• 4 to 10 July 2026: 62nd CPA Canada Regional Conference, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada plus the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians (CWP) Canada Regional Meeting
• 23 July to 2 Aug 2026: 23rd Commonwealth Games 2026, Glasgow, Scotland
• 27 to 29 July 2026: 2026 National Conference of State Legislatures, Chicago, United States

SEPTEMBER

• 15 September 2026: International Day of Democracy

NOVEMBER

• 1 to 4 November 2026: 28th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), Antigua and Barbuda, 

DATES TBC

• 69th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, Cape Town, South Africa

Updated 24/11/2025