Research Outputs: Recent submissions
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Sarath Weerasekera: National Flag
(www.factcheck.lk , 3/24/2022)FALSE: No one will be allowed to distort & disrespect the national flag of our Motherland. Anyone found so shall be thoroughly investigated and charged accordingly under the provisions of our Penal Code.– Official twitter ... -
Gender Responsive Budgeting: Evaluating Key Performance Indicators
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-07-01)Sri Lanka’s performance in enhancing gender equality has consistently remained poor in the past decade. A previous analysis by Verité Research showed that Sri Lanka’s declining rank on the Global Gender Gap Index (GGGI) ... -
ඒකාකෘතික කිරීමක්?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-02-15)In the month of February 2022, Aruna published an article on an incident relating to an indigenous person, which includes a cartoon where indigenous people have been stereotyped. -
(අ)පක්ෂපාතී සිරස්තලයක්?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-02-22)In the month of February, an article published in Sunday Aruna used a prejudicial and judgmental heading that views the "Jehovah" community in negative light based on their beliefs and practices. -
නිෂේධනාත්කම යෙදුම් භාවිතා කිරීම සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-02)During the month of February 2022, articles published in Aruna, Lankadeepa, Divaina, Sunday Divaina, Mawbima, Hiru and Dinamina published several derogatory terms such as "gura", "mas wedda", "kudda", and "ganikawa", which ... -
පුද්ගල ප්‍රථම භාෂාවක් භාවිතය සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-02)During the month of February 2022, Aruna, Divaina and Mawbima published articles which contained the ethical violation of not using a person-first language when reporting on persons with disabilities. Derogatory terms used ... -
දිවි තොර කරගැනීම් සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-02)During the months of January 2022 and February 2022 several news reports relating suicide incidents violated media ethics guidelines as follows; Derana, Divaina and Aruna published news on an American beauty queen who ... -
කාන්තාවන් ඒකාකෘතික කිරීම්, කොන් කිරීම් සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-02)During the months of January 2022 and February 2022, several articles published in Anidda, Mawbima, Lankadeepa and Aruna contained ethical violations pertaining to gender discrimination; only highlighting women when both ... -
වාර්ගිකත්වය අනවශ්‍ය ලෙස ඉස්මතු කිරීම් සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-02)During the month of February 2022, Mawbima, Sunday Divaina, Virakersari and Thinakaran published several articles, which contained the ethical violation irrelevantly and negatively highlighting the ethnicity of persons. ... -
මාධ්‍යවේදී චමුදිත සමරවික්‍රමගේ නිවසට එල්ල වූ ප්‍රහාරය පිළිබඳ මාධ්‍ය වාර්තාකරණය
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-02)During the month of February 2022, tv and print media largely reported on the attack on journalist Chamuditha Samarawickrema's house. Notably, Swarnavahini prime time news did not report the attack in the following days ... -
වාර්ගිකත්වය, බාහිර රූපය හා කොන් කිරීම්?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-02-24)In the month of February 2022, Silumina published an article on the death of a woman, where her physical appearance was irrelevantly highlighted in the headline as "suruupi", and her alleged lover's ethnicity was irrelevantly ... -
නම නොමැතිව නොහැකිද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-02-23)In the month of February 2022, an article published in Silumina on a 13-year-old who had allegedly run away from home to meet a person that she had found online, irrelevantly revealed the identity of the minor who is ... -
"දුෂණය" වෙනුවට ලිංගික අපරාධය?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-02-15)In the month of February 2022, Lankadeepa, Aruna, Mawbima and Dinamina reported on a sexual crime against a German woman, where the crime was named as "duushanaya". It is a deorgatory term used to describe sexual crime, ... -
Bandula Gunawardana: Debt
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/20/2022)FALSE: The debt stood at 2 trillion when Mahinda Rajapaksa took over the country. It stood at 7 trillion at the time he handed over the country. The debt only rose by 5 trillion in [those] 10 years. [But] The debt stood ... -
වැරදි තොරතුරු ?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-02-14)In the month of February 2022, an article published in Dinamina carried a misleading headline as it stated that Sri Lanka has the lowest fuel prices in South Asia. In the body of the article, it has been stated that Sri ... -
Eran Wickramaratne: Reserves
(www.factcheck.lk, 2/24/2022)TRUE: Compared to 2019 and 2021, the decrease in foreign reserves is 80% in Sri Lanka. But other countries in the [South Asian] region have seen an escalation of their reserves. - Eran Wickramaratne, Daily FT, 25 January 2022 -
සිරස්තලය සහ පුවත් අන්තර්ගතය ගැලපේද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-02-01)In the month of January 2022, an article published on Aruna carried a misleading heading that does not match with the information in the content. Furthermore, it also used the term "duushanaya", which is a derogatory term ... -
Harsha de Silva: Inflation in Asia
(www.factcheck.lk , 3/3/2022)TRUE: We [Sri Lanka] have the highest inflation in Asia as of now. - Harsha de Silva, Ada Derana, 1 February 2022 -
"සුරූපී" බව පුවතට අදාළද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-02-17)In the month of February 2022, Aruna, Divaina, Lankadeepa and Mawbima reported on a dancer committing suicide, where her physical appearance was highlighted as "suruupi" (beautiful) which was irrelevant to the context. The ... -
අනවශ්‍ය බාහිර රූපය ඉස්මතු කිරීම් සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-02)During the months of January 2022 and February 2022, several articles published in Aruna, Silumina, Mawbima and Divaina contained the ethical violation of irrelevantly highlighting the physical appearance of women using ...