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

JULY

• CPA Parliamentary Academy: Advanced Residency Programme for Leadership in Parliament for Clerks and Officials, Wellington, New Zealand, 7 to 11 July 2025 (arrival 6 July - departure 12 July)
• 54th Presiding Officers and Clerks Conference (POCC) for Australia and Pacific Regions, Nauru, 7 to 11 July 2025
• 61st CPA Canada Regional Conference, Québec City, Québec, Canada, 20 to 24 July 2025
• 15th Summit of Women Speakers of Parliament, Bern, Switzerland, 28 July 2025
• Sixth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament, Switzerland (every five years), 29 to 31 July 2025
• 19th Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth (CSPOC) Africa Region, Parliament of Botswana, TBC July 2025

AUGUST

• 2025 Parliamentarian of the Year Awards – nomination deadline closes, 7 August 2025
• 54th CPA Africa Regional Conference, Banjul, The Gambia, 10 to 16 August 2025
• International Youth Day, 12 August 2025

SEPTEMBER

• 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)

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), 5 to 12 October 2025
• 151st Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly, Geneva, Switzerland, 19 to 23 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
• 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), 28 to 30 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, January 2026 (dates TBC)

Updated 30/06/2025