The inaugural Commonwealth Ocean Ministers Meeting will be held on 19 April 2024 in Cyprus, under the theme ‘Our Resilient Common Ocean: from Cyprus to Samoa’.

The Rt Hon Patricia Scotland KC, the Commonwealth Secretary-General, and Professor Sir Nasser David Khalili, Chairman of the Khalili Foundation, recently launched the Commonwealth Faith Festival.

Commonwealth Day was celebrated on 11 March with a renewed commitment to deliver a common future for all. While there were high-profile activities in London, the day was observed with reverence, celebration and education throughout the world.

Commonwealth Day was celebrated on Monday 11 March 2024, marking the beginning of a week-long series of events and activities happening around the globe – including faith and civic gatherings, debates, school assemblies, flag-raising ceremonies and cultural events.

At the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Rwanda, 2023 was declared as the Commonwealth Year of Youth, and a series of initiatives to deliver on that mandate began.

The Commonwealth Secretary-General, the Rt Hon Patricia Scotland KC, led a team of international policy experts and climate specialists from the Commonwealth Secretariat to COP28.

Commonwealth Finance Ministers met today in Marrakesh, Morocco to discuss the reform of the global financial architecture, with particular attention to two pivotal areas, scaling up development finance and addressing debt vulnerabilities.