Calendar of Activities for 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

2026

JULY

• 23 July to 2 Aug 2026: 23rd Commonwealth Games 2026, Glasgow, Scotland
• 27 to 29 July 2026: CPA Technical Assistance Programme - Belize Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Workshop, Belmopan, Belize
• 27 to 29 July 2026: 2026 National Conference of State Legislatures, Chicago, United States
• 26 to 31 July 2026: 13th Commonwealth Youth Parliament (13CYP), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• 27 to 31 July 2026: Professional Development Seminar of the Canadian Association of Clerks-at-the-Table, St John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador

AUGUST

• 9 to 15 August 2026: 55th CPA Africa Regional Conference, Lilongwe, Malawi
• 11 August 2026: CWP webinar: ‘Work-Life Balance in Parliamentary Service: Building Sustainable and Healthy Parliamentary Careers’
• 12 August 2026: International Youth Day
• 30 August to 5 September 2026: 48th CPA Regional Conference and 19th Presiding Officers and Clerks Conference of the Caribbean, Americas and the Atlantic (CAA) Region, Kingston, Jamaica (including Regional Executive Committee, 16th CAA Regional Conference of the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians (CWP) and 19th CPA Caribbean, Americas and the Atlantic Regional Youth Parliament)

SEPTEMBER

• 15 September 2026: International Day of Democracy
• 13 to 19 September 2026: 69th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, Cape Town, South Africa

OCTOBER

• 2 to 5 October 2026: Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians (CWP) Asia Regional event - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, Pakistan (part funded by CWP Gender Strengthening Fund)
• 5 to 9 October 2026: 153rd IPU Assembly, Tanzania
• 12 to 16 October 2026: CPA Parliamentary Academy Residency Programme for Members (Practice & Procedure), Guernsey
• 24 October 2026 UN Day
• TBC October 2026: 46th CPA Canadian Parliamentary Seminar (for CPA Canada Branches only), St John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador

NOVEMBER

• 1 to 4 November 2026: 28th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), Antigua and Barbuda
• 9 to 13 November 2026: Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians (CWP) Workshop, Nadi, Fiji
• 9 to 11 November 2026: 41st CPA Australia and Pacific Regional Conference, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
  25 November 2026: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women – 16 Days of Activism
• TBC November 2026: 2026 UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) COP31, Türkiye (Australia to be COP President)

DECEMBER

• 3 December 2026: International Day of Disabled Persons
• 10 December 2026: UN Human Rights Day

2027

MAY

• 9 to 13 May 2027: 25th Commonwealth Law Conference, Darwin, Australia

Updated 06/07/2026