The 17th Annual Dame Nita Barrow Lecture will be held. Poonam Khaturia, founder, Society for Women’s Action and Training Initiatives, will discuss “Changing Laws and Unchanging Statistics: Rape and Rape Laws in India with Reflections from Canada.” Other speakers include Wanda Nanibush, community organizer. The event will be held at the George Ignatieff Theatre, University of Toronto.

Euromaidan Ottawa will be holding a vigil at the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, to remember the victims of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17, presumed to have been downed by Russian rockets on Thursday. The group will then proceed to the Russian embassy to protest the ongoing invasion of Ukraine’s sovereign territory and active destabilization of Ukrainian border regions with armed personnel and illegally-smuggled artillery such as that used to down Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 by Kremlin-sponsored militias.

The theme for this year’s World Congress of Political Science is “Challenges of Contemporary Governance. Globalization has changed the work of political scientists, intensifying communication and exchange on issues pertaining to the way in which communities, societies, nations and the world itself are governed. Presented by the International Political Science Association. More information is available online.