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Performance of Female MPs in the 9th Parliament
(Manthri.lk, 2021-04-21)This infographic shows the Performance of Female Mps in 9th Parliament from August 2020 to February 2021. They are Rohini Kumari Wijerathna, Pavithradevi Wanniarachchi, Harini Amarasuriya, Sudarshini Fernandopulle, Thalatha ... -
Shantha Bandara: Finance Act 2021
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/21/2021)TRUE:…noteworthy is the fact that [the Finance Act No. 18 of 2021] will not invalidate the Prevention of Money Laundering Act or any other finance law in the country. - Shantha Bandara, Divaina, 10 September 2021 -
Ajith Nivard Cabraal: COVID-19 Expenditure
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/14/2021)FALSE:The Government has spent more than Rs. 700 billion on controlling the COVID-19 pandemic and providing relief to people and that it is exactly half of the overall income of this country last year which was Rs. 1,380 ... -
Mahinda Amaraweera: Public Sector Spending
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/7/2021)FALSE: More than 85% of government revenue goes to pay salaries and pensions to public servants. - Mahinda Amaraweera, Media briefing Department of Government Information, 1 September 2021 -
Ashok Abeysinghe: Organic agriculture statistics
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/19/2021)TRUE: There are only 16 countries in the world that have at least moved towards 10% organic agriculture. No Asian countries are among those 16. - Ashok Abeysinghe, Official Facebook page of Samagi Jana Balawegaya, 26 October 2021 -
Basil Rajapaksa: 2021 Government Revenue
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/11/2021)BLATANTLY FALSE: Especially due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Rs. 1500-1600 billion has reduced from the revenue that we should have generated during this year alone. That is even higher than the amount we estimated to be the ... -
උපකාරක අංක පළ කිරීම ප්‍රශංසා කටයුතුයි!
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-11-24)In the month of November 2021 article published in The Morning on suicide contained emergency helplines, which is in compliance with media ethics guidelines. -
උපකාරක අංක සඳහන් කිරීම ප්‍රශංසා කටයුතුයි !
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-11-04)In the month of November 2021, Ethics Eye published an infographic where data pertaining to publishing helplines with articles on suicide in September 2021 and October 2021 were demonstrated. The following media outlets ... -
Civil Society Organisation Sustainability Index 2020 for Asia: Sri Lanka Country Report
(2021-09)This is the seventh time Sri Lanka is participating in the index. Verité Research is the local implementing partner for this initiative. The Civil Society Organization Sustainability Index (CSOSI) assesses the sustainability ... -
Regulating Social Media in Sri Lanka: An Analysis of the Legal and Non-Legal Regulatory Frameworks in the Context of Hate Speech and Disinformation
(Verité Research, 2021-11)This study explores the existing legal and non-legal frameworks to regulate the spread of disinformation and hate speech on social media. The study presents potential implications of the spread of disinformation and hate ... -
Quantifying the COVID Clean-up of Air Quality in Colombo
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-09-06)This Insight quantifies the improvements in air quality in Colombo during periods of Covid19 related restrictions and reveals that the Covid19 restrictions have led to a 60% reduction in the average duration of time that ... -
නිශේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ භාවිතය
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-10)During the month of October 2021 Lankadeepa, Divaina, Mawbima and Aruna published several articles which contained the ethical violations of using derogatory and backward terms such as "haamputha", "mathloliya" and "ganika", ... -
කාන්තාව වෙන් කොට සලකන සහ කාන්තාවන් පමණක් ඉස්මතු කරන වාර්තාකරණයන්
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-10)During the month of October, Mawbima, Divaina, Aruna and Dinamina published articles which discriminated women. When reporting law-breaking incidents where both men and women were involved and the women were not in the ... -
සමේ වර්ණය සහ ශරීරය මත පදනම් වූ කොන් කිරීම්
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-10)During the month of October Mawbima, Lankadeepa, Sunday Divaina and Dinamina published several articles which contained the ethical violations of using the derogatory terms "sudda", "sudu katha" and "cheena" which discriminate ... -
ඒක පාර්ශවීය වාර්තාකරණයන්
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-10)During the month of October 2021 Sunday Aruna, ITN, Sirasa, Swarnavahini, Rupavahini published several news which contained the ethical violation of bias reporting, whereby only the opinion of one party involved in an ... -
නොමඟ යවන පුවත් සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-10-12)In the month of October, Sunday Divaina published misleading headline and misleading information on Pandora papers that 93 Sri Lankans were among the individuals exposed by the Papers, whereas 93 was the total count of Sri ... -
උපකාරක සඳහන් කිරීම ප්‍රශංසා කටයුතුයි!
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-10-12)In the month of October 2021 Derana and Daily News published news which contained mental health helplines -
Cigarette Taxation: 20 Billion Extra Revenue in 2020, if Indexation Is Implemented = දර්ශකයකට අනුව දුම්වැටි බදු අය කරන්නට කටයුතු කලොත්, 2020දී, රජයට රුපියල් බිලියන 20ක අමතර ආදායමක්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2020-06-01)The government could raise an extra Rs. 20 Billion from cigarette taxation in 2020 from the proper implementation of the indexation policy articulated in the 2019 Budget and rational calibration of taxes for all cigarette ... -
Post-Covid19: Can the Sri Lankan apparel sector benefit from US-China decoupling? A statistical analysis
(National Science Foundation, Sri Lanka, 2021)The “US-China decoupling” has received much attention with the deterioration of US-China diplomatic and economic ties under the Trump administration. US firms seeking to reduce their reliance on China offers an economic ... -
Ineffectiveness of Social Contacts and Alternate Job Search Methods for Unemployed Youth in Sri Lanka (Working Paper)
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2020-06)Sri Lankan youth due to an extended period of unemployment face a lower possibility in future employment and a reduced earning capacity. As a solution, this paper aims to identify an efficient search method. Emphasis is ...