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ලිංගික අපරාධයකට මුහුණ පෑ අයෙකු අපවිත්ර වූ බවට හඟවන "දූෂණය", "කෙළෙසීම" වැනි යෙදුම් උචිත වේද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-08-25)On the 25 of August 2023, Ethics Eye published this infographic emphasising the use of ethical term 'ලිංගික අපරාධය' instead of using terms like 'දූෂණය' and 'කෙළෙසීම' which give the sense that the survivor of a sex crime ... -
උපකාරක අංක පළ කිරීම ප්රශංසනීයයි!
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-08-14)On the 3 August 2023, Sinhala TV channel Siyatha reported a news that included suicide helplines. -
ලිංගික අපරාධ වාර්තාකරණය සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-08)In the months of July and August 2023, Sinhala newspapers Dinamina, Divaina, Mawbima and Lankadeepa published articles that contain terms that trivialize sex crimes and the term "දුෂණය" (Dushanaya). -
අගතියට පත් වූ අය හට වරද පැටවීමක්?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-08-08)On the 6 August 2023 article published in Sunday Aruna used the term "රූමත්" (Rumath) to highlight physical appearance where it was irrelevant and blamed the murder victims, stating they lacked a good character certificate. -
උඩවලවේ නියඟය සහ ජල ගැටලුව: රූපවාහිනී පුවත් සිරස්තල ඔස්සේ
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-08-06)This infographic shows how the ITN, Rupavahini, Sirasa, Derana, Hiru, Swarnavahini and Siyatha news headlines (on 6 August 2023) reported on the damage to crops due to lack of water from Samanalawewa in Udawalawe. -
පියෙකු ද? "නරුම" පියෙකු ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-07-30)In the month of July 2023, Sinhala newspapers Silumina and Sunday Lankadeepa published articles that used the term "නරුම පියා " (Naruma piya) to describe the suspect which is demonising. Also, the article published in ... -
නොමඟ යවන සුළු වාර්තාකරණයක්?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-07-07)On the 20 July 2023 an article published in Colombo Times claims that a group of scientists has discovered a planet with an advanced civilization, although foreign media claims that it is merely an unusual object. -
කාන්තාව සහ මාධ්ය වාර්තාකරණය
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-08-26)On the 26th of August 2023, Ethics Eye published a set of guidelines to be followed when portraying women in media. -
අපරාධ සහ සමාජ ප්රශ්න පිළිබදව වාර්තා කිරීමේ දී පිළිපැදිය යුතු මාධ්ය ආචාරධර්ම
(2023-08)On the 24th of August 2023, Ethics Eye published a set of ethical guidelines on how to report on crime and social issues. -
වැරදි තොරතුරු වලින් මුලා නොවන්නට ...
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-08-28)On the 28th of August 2023, Ethics Eye published a set of guidelines to be followed when sharing information, to prevent the spread of misinformation. -
සැකකරුවන්ගේ අනන්යතාවය හෙළි කළ යුතුද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-08-22)On the 21st of August 2023 articles published in Dinamina, Mawbima and Aruna reported on a fire that arose in a forest in Athugala due to the negligence of a couple. Dinamina had unethically revealed the identity of the ... -
Wimalaweera Dissanayake: Health sector
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/7/2023)PARTLY TRUE: Even in the midst of all the shortcomings, it’s Sri Lanka that has the best health service in South Asia. Wimalaweera Dissanayake, The Life Traveler, 19 July 2023 -
Harini Amarasuriya: Unpaid care work
(www.factcheck.lk, 8/17/2023)TRUE: …there are a few factors that are not considered when measuring the contribution to the labour force…[a] large chunk of unremunerated work done by women is the main type of work that is not included in these statistics. ... -
Udaya Gammanpila: Provident funds
(www.factcheck.lk, 8/10/2023)TRUE: In addition to the provident fund of the general public, CBSL also maintains a separate provident fund for its officers […] CBSL invested its funds in places where it could get the highest returns and credited an ... -
Rauff Hakeem: Governance and Economic Crimes
(www.factcheck.lk, 8/3/2023)PARTLY TRUE: Come September, we will be the first Asian country to be subjected to IMF review of governance diagnostic. [...] In the meantime, even in the Geneva Resolution against Sri Lanka, they spoke about the need to ... -
Udaya Gammanpila: Domestic Debt Restructuring
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/27/2023)TRUE: The IMF has not imposed a condition saying to restructure domestic debt. ….. That being the case, who has intimidated us to the point of doing this? What has happened is that foreign bondholders – sovereign bondholders ... -
Ranjith Siyabalapitiya: Vehicle imports
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/20/2023)TRUE: ...within that period [2015-2020], we have brought 2,498,714 vehicles...worth Rs. 1,331.51 billion...We have taxed [them to the value of] 991.12 billion. Ranjith Siyambalapitiya, YouTube Page of Parliament of Sri ... -
Harin Fernando: Chinese tourists
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/13/2023)PARTLY TRUE: If each Chinese tourist spent $5,000 that could raise a figure comparable to the recent International Monetary Fund bailout…If you really look at it, tourism can get Sri Lanka out of this mess. Harin Fernando, ... -
Ranil Wickremesinghe: Inflation
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/7/2023)PARTLY TRUE: Inflation, which had skyrocketed to 70 percent, has now decreased to 25.2 percent, lightening the burden of daily life for all of us. Ranil Wickremesinghe, Presidential Secretariat of Sri Lanka, 1 June 2023 -
Kabir Hashim: Poverty line
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/29/2023)TRUE: “…by 2019…the poverty line[sic] of this country was 11%…it has grown to 25% by 2023. I believe it is more than that. But the World Bank has calculated that it is only 25%, which means that out of 22 million in this ...