Media: Recent submissions
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ගුරා ද? ගුරුවරයා ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-07-16)On July 15, 2024, Lankadeepa and Dinamina Sinhala newspaper reported the arrest of a dance teacher accused of sexually abusing female students by referring to the teacher with the derogatory term “Gura” (ගුරා). -
චීන ජාතිකයා සහ චීනා: ඔබ තෝරා ගන්නා සිරස්තලය කුමක්ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-07-16)The foreign news of the arrest of a Chinese national who tried to carry more than a hundred snakes at a border checkpoint was reported by the Sinhala newspapers Lankadeepa on July 15, 2024 and Aruna on July 12, 2024 using ... -
වැලිපැන්න ප්රදේශයේ සිසුවියක් දිවි තොර කර ගැනීමේ පුවත සිංහල පුවත්පත් ආවරණය කළ ආකාරය
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-07-15)This infographic shows how a suicide incident of a schoolgirl in Welipanna area was reported in the Sinhala newspapers published on July 15, 2024. Without following media ethical guidelines, Ada, Aruna and Dinamina have ... -
"වින කළ" යන්න තුළින් ලිංගික අපයෝජනයක් සිදු වූ බවක් ඔබට හැඟේද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-07-15)On July 11, 2024, the Aruna Sinhala newspaper trivialized the news of the sexual abuse of two 8-year-old lay monks by the chief monk of the temple. Dinamina Sinhala newspaper published the same news using the term ‘ලිංගික ... -
විශ්වවිද්යාල ආචාර්යවරුන්ගේ විරෝධතාවය
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-09)On 26 September the coverage given by TV channels for a protest carried out by university lecturers is as follows. Siyatha, Swaranwahini and Sirasa featured the protest in their headlines and content. Hiru, ITN and ... -
"කුකුල් කොටු භාරගත් මානව හිමිකම් නරි" - මෙම කතුවැකිය පිළිබඳ ඔබේ අදහස?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-09)On 19 September 2023, Aruna editorial stated the when criminals are captured and are interrogated by the police, these criminals threaten the police saying that they will appeal to human rights groups. The editorial therefore ... -
පාස්කු ප්රහාරය පිළිබඳව බ්රිතාන්යයේ චැනල් 4 නාලිකාවේ හෙළිදරව්ව
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-09)Britain's Channel 4 released a documentary alleging that they had more information about the Easter Sunday attacks that took place in 2019. On 04 September 2023, this was how the local TV channels covered the news, prior ... -
කාන්තාවන් ඒකාකෘතික කිරීම්, කොන් කිරීම් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-06)On 03 June 2023, Sinhala and Tamil newspapers reported that persons involved in the operations of a fraudulent office in close proximity to Department of Motor Traffic had been arrested. Divaina and Thinakaran mentioned ... -
Trend Analysis of Violence Against Christians in Sri Lanka: November 2022 - October 2023
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-06)This study examines critical trends in religiously motivated violence against Christians between November 2022 and October 2023, based on data collated by the National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka (NCEASL). The ... -
Racial Profiling and Language Polarisation in Sri Lankan Media: A Problem Highlighted by “Ethics Eye” and “The Divide”
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-09)This research brief introduces two ailments in the Sri Lankan media that have negative social ramifications on minorities: (1) racial profiling; and (2) language polarisation. This brief provides a short introduction to ... -
Prejudice and Patronage: An Analysis of Incidents of Violence against Christians, Muslims, Hindus in Sri Lanka (September 2019 – September 2020)
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021)This study offers insights in key trends and drivers of religious violence from September 2019 to September 2020. A total of 63 incidents of violence against Christians as well as episodes of discrimination against Muslims ... -
Patterns and Risks of Religious Violence Against Christians (October 2020 – October 2021)
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022)Ethno-religious violence has persisted in post-war Sri Lanka irrespective of changes to the country’s political leadership. The current study unpacks the macro-level and micro-level patterns of religious violence against ... -
Inaction and Impunity: Incidents of Religious Violence Targeting Christians, Muslims and Hindus (2015-2019)
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2020-01)Ethno-religious violence in Sri Lanka is a chronic and systemic problem that has continued despite successive changes in government. This study examines the key trends of incidents of violence faced by minority Christian, ... -
Religious violence against Christians: Disruptions and Distractions - November 2021 to October 2022
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-10)Ethno-religious violence is an enduring feature in Sri Lanka irrespective of the changes to the country’s socio-political and economic landscapes. This study offers insights into key patterns of violence directed against ... -
නතාෂා එදිරිසූරිය අත්අඩංගුවට ගැනීම සම්බන්ධ රූපවාහිනී සහ පුවත්පත් වාර්තා
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-05)On 28 May 2023, Sinhala TV channels reported on the arrest of Nathasha Edirisooriya. The accusation levelled against Edirisooriya was that she insulted Buddhism during a comedy show at which she was performing. A majority ... -
පුද්ගල ප්රථම භාෂාවක් භාවිත කරමු!
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-05)In May 2023, Sinhala newspapers published articles about how a police constable had sexually abused a girl with polio. On 22 May this was reported by Lankadeepa and Aruna, and on the 23rd by Dinamina. The 3 newspapers had ... -
දිවි අහිමි කරගැනීම පිළිබඳ වාර්තාකරණයේදී මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම කඩවීම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-06)In the month of June 2023, Sinhala newspapers Mawbima, Aruna, Sathi Aga Aruna, Lankadeepa, Ada, Divaina, Dinamina, English newspapers The Island and Daily News and the Tamil newspaper Thamilan published several articles ... -
දිවි අහිමි කරගැනීම පිළිබඳ වාර්තාකරණ සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-07)During the month of July 2023, Sinhala newspapers Mawbima, Aruna, Divaina, Dinamina, Ada, Aruna, Lankadeepa, and Tamil newspaper Thinakaran published several articles which contained the following ethical violations related ... -
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 ... -
නිශේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-09)During the month of September 2023, Aruna, Divaina, Dinamina, Lankadeepa, Mawbima published articles which contained the following derogatory terms: "කුඩ්ඩා" (kudda), "ඊජීප්තුවා" (eejipthuva), "ජාවාරමුන්ට" (Jaavaramunta), ...