Research Outputs: Recent submissions
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Eran Wickramaratne: All Borrowings Used to Repay Debt
(www.factcheck.lk, 8/22/2019)PARTLY TRUE: Total borrowings by the Government have been completely used to repay debt. - Eran Wickramaratne, Daily FT, 19 June 2019 -
Udaya Gammanpila: Prison Expenditure
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/27/2019)PARTLY TRUE: Today, most people in prisons are those imprisoned for being unable to pay fines. To maintain a prisoner, the government spends Rs. 671 per person per day. Accordingly, a person who is imprisoned for being ... -
Mangala Samaraweera: Macroeconomic indicators
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/20/2019)PARTLY TRUE: …macroeconomic indicators showed positive trends with the country’s $7.6 billion foreign reserves, capable of covering four months of imports, the trade deficit declining to a five year low in February and Sri ... -
Namal Rajapaksa: Education
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/21/2019)FALSE: Today 560,000 sit the Ordinary Level examination. 340,000 sit the Advanced Level examination. Around 65,000 – 100,000 pass the examination. Approximately 28,000 go to university. - Namal Rajapaksa, Mawbima, 11 July 2019 -
Dinesh Gunawardena: IDP Resettlement
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/25/2020)PARTLY TRUE: “Sri Lanka also made significant progress in the resettlement of over 440,000 IDPs … presently it has risen to 93.76%.” - Dinesh Gunawardena, Daily FT, 28 February 2020 -
Patali Champika Ranawaka: Mihin and Sri Lankan Airlines debt
(www.factcheck.lk, 2/6/2020)FALSE: Through SriLankan Airlines and Mihin Lanka, every person in the country has been made a debtor to the value of LKR 12,500. - Patali Champika Ranawaka, Divaina, 28 August 2019 -
Udaya Gammanpila: National anthem in Tamil
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/30/2020)FALSE: [According to Article 7 of the constitution] Sri Lanka's national anthem is "Sri Lanka Maatha"… if anything other than the words of "Sri Lanka Maatha" contained in the third schedule is considered to be the national ... -
Sajith Premadasa: Women in politics
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/24/2020)TRUE: …[we] have not been able to increase representation [of women] in parliament. Even today, representation of women in our parliament is at a level of 5.8%. Our government was able to increase representation of women ... -
Keheliya Rambukwella: GDP Growth
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/16/2020)TRUE: When President Mahinda Rajapaksa took over the country in 2005, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was USD 20 billion. In ten years, we increased the GDP to USD 80 billion. - Keheliya Rambukwella, Dinamina, 4 December 2019 -
Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Transport
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/9/2020)PARTLY TRUE: Only 52% of our country uses public transport… 48% of the people use private transportation. - Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Daily News, 30 November 2019 -
Moves to remove law on submiting family background of female migrant workers
(Colombo: Veritè Research, 1/28/2020)The manner in which Sinhala and Tamil press reported on the moves by the government to remove laws where women who seek jobs abroad have to provide details of family background. -
Political Prisoners
(Colombo: Veritè Research, 7/19/2019)The manner in which the Sinhala and Tamil press reported on the hunger strike launched by eight political prisoners in the Anuradhapura prison. -
Mandarin: a threat to Tamil
(Colombo: Veritè Research, 7/19/2019)The manner in which the Sinhala and the Tamil press reported on Chinese Mandarin language being a threat to Tamil. -
28th anniversary of the Sathurukondan massacre
(Colombo: Veritè Research, 7/18/2019)The difference between how the Tamil and Sinhala press covered the 28th remembrance event on the Sathurukondan massacre in Batticaloa. -
EU (revision of) Minimum Residue Level: Potential Effects on Exporting MSMEs
(Geneva: CUTS International, 2018-05)The note illustrates the views of, and challenges faced by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) as well as monitoring organisations on the requirements of the Maximum Residue Level (MRL), for pesticide use, that exporters ... -
Powers of the Election Commission to Regulate Privately-Owned Media during Elections in Sri Lanka
(Verité Research, 2019-11)The regulation of the media during an election period to ensure free and fair elections has a reasonably long history in Sri Lanka. The Election Commission of Sri Lanka is constitutionally empowered to regulate the media ... -
Mapping of Medical Services Sector: Key Figures, Structure, and the Current National Regulations
(Geneva: CUTS International, 2019-01)This note provides information on the medical services sector, along the lines of outpatient services and dental services. It also illustrates the challenges faced by, and regulations that govern the sector. -
Newspapers that have violated ethical guidelines when reporting on COVID-19: 2020 April 01-30
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-30)On 30 April 2020 Ethics Eye published an infographic summarising the number of times Aruna, Dinamina, Divaina, Lankadeepa, Mawbima (and their Sunday variants) violated the guidelines issued by the Ministry of Healthcare ... -
Inappropriate Reporting on Suicide
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-30)On April 28, 2020 and April 29, 2020 Aruna, Ada, and Mawbima reported on suicide in a manner that did not comply with media ethics guidelines -
Negative Terms
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-05-01)On April 30, 2020 Mawbima and Lankadeepa published articles containing the term "Kudda" in their headlines