Browsing Media by Subject "Sexist reporting"
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අකැප ඇඳුම් හා අකැප ආහාර?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-03-31)In the month of March 2022, Divaina published an article about a woman who offered food to the theras at a temple. It criticised the woman, saying that her attire was inappropriate. This amounts to unethical media behaviour, ... -
අගතිකාරී ආකල්ප සහ වාර්ගිකත්වය
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-12-09)In the month of November 2021, an article published in Sunday Aruna highlighted the ethnicity of a woman as "Tamil" and promoted social prejudices surrounding skin colour by describing her physical appearance and skin colour. -
අඟුරුවාතොට මරණය: "රූමත්" හෝ "හැඩකාර" බව අදාළ වන්නේද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-07)On 23rd and 24th July 2023, Sinhala newspapers Aruna, Sathi Aga Aruna, Divaina and Lankadeepa reported on the death of a mother and her baby. The papers referred to the mother's appearance by using words such as "රූමත්" ... -
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 ... -
අනවශ්ය බාහිර රූපය ඉස්මතු කිරීම් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-01)During the months of December 2021 and January 2022, several articles published in Mawbima, Divaina, Lankadeepa and Aruna described the physical appearance of women in different contexts as “ruumath”, “suruupi” as well as ... -
අනවශ්ය බාහිර රූපය ඉස්මතු කිරීම් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-03)During the month of March 2023, several articles published in Divaina, Lankadeepa, Aruna, Irida Mawbima, Irida Aruna, Irida Lankadeepa, and in TV channels such as TV Derana contained the ethical violations such as using ... -
අනවශ්ය බාහිර රූපය ඉස්මතු කිරීම් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-12-23)On the 23rd of December 2022, Dinamina published an article, that contained the ethical violation of irrelevantly highlighting the physical appearance of women using terms such as "roomath (රූමත්)”. -
අනවශ්ය බාහිර රූපය ඉස්මතු කිරීම් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-09-29)On 26 September 2022, Aruna published an article which contained the ethical violation of irrelevantly highlighting the physical appearance of a woman by using terms such as "roomath” (රූමත්) and “roomathiyata” (රූමතියට). -
අනවශ්ය බාහිර රූපය ඉස්මතු කිරීම් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-10)During the months of October 2022, several articles published in Dinamina, Mawbima and Sunday Divaina contained the ethical violation of irrelevantly highlighting the physical appearance of women using terms such as "roomath" ... -
අනවශ්ය ලෙස බාහිර රූපය ඉස්මතු කිරීම් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-06)During the month of June 2022, an article in Dinamina irrelevantly highlighted the physical appearance of women using the term ‘surupi’, while an article on the same story in the Lankadeepa did not contain the above ethical ... -
ඍණාත්මක සන්දර්භයන් තුළ කාන්තාවන් පමණක් ඉස්මතු නොකරමු
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-09)An incident was reported on 31 August 2023 by Dinamina and Daily News of how a woman, along with three others had been arrested for the crime of torturing someone. Ada had reported on 18th September that two females along ... -
එකම පුවතක්, දෙස් විදෙස් සිරස්තල දෙකක් - ඔබේ අදහස?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-12-01)In the month of November 2021, an article published in Lankadeepa Sandella used the headline "Short Raani" in an article quoting an interview with the actor Raani Mukherji, which discriminates people based on their height. -
කලු/සුදු රාමු සහ ස්ත්රී පුර්ෂ භාවය මත පදනම් වූ කොන් කිරීම්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-09-07)In the month of September 2021 an article published in Sunday Aruna referred to Jaqueline Fernandez using colour and gender discriminatory language which is a violation of media ethical guidelines. -
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 ... -
කාන්තාවකගේ විවාහක අවිවාහක බව අදාළ නොවන හැඳින්වීම් ක්රමයක්?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-01-27)In the month of January 2022, Lankadeepa published on a parliamentary debate, where MPs were referred to be their marital status as Mr., Mrs., and Ms, which discriminates women based on their marital status. By contrary, ... -
කාන්තාවගේ රූමත් බව: අ(න)වශ්ය ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-05-23)In the month of May 2022, an article published in Sunday Mawbima reported on a scam involving a woman who stole money from others, where the physical appearance of the suspect was highlighted in the headline as "roomath", ... -
කාන්තාවන් ඒකාකෘතික කිරීම්, කොන් කිරීම් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2018-10)During the month of October 2018, several articles published in Mawbima, and Divaina contained ethical violations pertaining to gender discrimination; highlighting gender, only highlighting women when both women and men ... -
කාන්තාවන් ඒකාකෘතික කිරීම්, කොන් කිරීම් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-04)On the 10th of April 2023, Aruna used a headline which objectified and sexualised women, while Lankadeepa reported the same news ethically. On the 2nd of April 2023, Silumina published an article containing women stereotypes, ... -
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 ... -
කාන්තාවන් ඒකාකෘතික කිරීම්, කොන් කිරීම් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2018-04)During the month of April 2018, articles published in Divaina, Sunday Divaina, Daily Mirror and Ravaya, contained ethical violations pertaining to gender discrimination such as stereotyping women and using discriminatory ...