68th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference
Events

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

SEPTEMBER

  • G7 Speakers’ Conference, Ottawa, Canada, 4 to 7 September 2025
  • 47th CPA Regional Conference of the Caribbean, Americas and the Atlantic (CAA) Region (including Regional Executive Committee, 15th CAA Regional Conference of the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians (CWP) and 18th CPA Caribbean, Americas and the Atlantic Regional Youth Parliament), The Bahamas, 5 to 13 September 2025
  • 11th CPA India Regional Conference, Karnataka, India, 11 to 15 September 2025
  • International Day of Democracy, 15 September 2025
  • Commonwealth Magistrates and Judges Association (CMJA) 20th Triennial Conference, Banjul, The Gambia, 20 to 26 September 2025 (www.cmja.biz for details)
  • CPA Benchmarks Assessment for the Turks and Caicos House of Assembly, 22 to 26 September 2025
  • 45th CPA Canadian Parliamentary Seminar (for CPA Canada Branches only), New Brunswick, Canada, 25 to 28 September 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

DECEMBER


 

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

  • 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 22/08/2025