Calendar of Activities

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

2023

SEPTEMBER

• Launch event for CPA Parliamentary Academy SDGs course at Global Futures Conference - in the margins of UN SDGs Summit, New York, USA, 18 to 19 September 2023
• 66th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, Accra, Ghana (including 39th CPA Small Branches Conference; Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians (CWP) and Commonwealth Parliamentarians with Disabilities (CPwD) meetings; 66th CPA General Assembly; CPA Executive Committee meetings; and the Society of Clerks at the Table (SoCATT) meetings), 30 September to 6 October 2023

OCTOBER

• CPA Parliamentary Academy: Parliamentary Development Residency Course, Edinburgh, Scotland, 15 to 21 October 2023
• 147th IPU Assembly, Luanda, Angola, 23 to 27 October 2023
• UN Day, 24 October 2023

NOVEMBER

• 40th CPA Australia and Pacific Regional Conference, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 1 to 3 November 2023 – the theme of the conference is ‘Representation for the Future: Young people and Parliaments’.
• International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, 25 November 2023
• COP28 - 28th session of the Conference of Parties (COP 28) to the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 30 November to 12 December 2023

DECEMBER

• International Day of Disabled Persons, 3 December 2023
• 2nd Fourth Industrial Revolution C4IR Conference (Virtual) - theme: ‘Parliament and Cybersecurity: Ensuring the Integrity of our Digital Democracy’, 4 to 6 December 2023
• UN Human Rights Day, 10 December 2023

2024

JANUARY

• 27th Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth (CSPOC), Kampala, Uganda, 3 to 6 January 2024

MARCH

• 148th IPU Assembly and related meetings, Geneva, Switzerland, 23 to 27 March 2024

MAY

• 53rd CPA British Islands and Mediterranean Regional Conference, St Helena, w/c 20 May 2024 (TBC)

JULY

• 60th CPA Canadian Regional Conference, Ontario, Canada, 20 to 27 July 2024

OCTOBER

• 27th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), Apia, Samoa, 21 to 27 October 2024

NOVEMBER

• 67th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia including 40th CPA Small Branches Conference; Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians (CWP) and Commonwealth Parliamentarians with Disabilities (CPwD) meetings; 67th CPA General Assembly; CPA Executive Committee meetings; and the 58th Society of Clerks at the Table (SoCATT) meetings, 4 to 8 November 2024.

Updated 19/09/2023