Media: Recent submissions
Now showing items 61-80 of 1226
-
"සුරූපී" නැවතත්? - කාන්තාවන් ඒකාකෘතික කිරීම් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-01-09)On January 7, 2024, Hiru news covered an incident involving the exhumation of a woman's body from a cemetery. The report referred to the deceased using the terms "සුරූපී (Surupi)" and "සුරූපිනිය (Surupiniya)" which contribute ... -
"තරුණ තරුණියන් 50,000ක් ඇඟ මිරිකයි" - මෙම සිරස්තලය කෙතරම් යෝග්ය ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-01-08)On January 5, 2024, an article published in Aruna newspaper used the term "ඇඟ මිරිකයි (Aga Mirikai)" to refer to professional massage therapists working at spas. Such language perpetuates stigma and undermines the ... -
Shehan Semasinghe: FOREX crisis
(www.factcheck.lk, 2024-03-22)PARTLY TRUE: In 2022, when we were going through the gravest foreign exchange crisis this country has ever faced, one of the main factors for it was remittances from foreign workers. After that the income from tourism. ... -
පුද්ගල-ප්රථම භාෂාවක් භාවිත කිරීම ප්රශංසනීයයි!
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-08-21)On 21st August 2023, Aruna newspaper reported that the government is taking action to remove all taxes on equipment needed by people with disabilities. The article commendably used person-first language to describe individuals ... -
නොමඟ යවන සුළු වාර්තාකරණයක්?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-07-20)On July 20, 2023, an article on the Colombo Times website published a headline claiming that Australian scientists had discovered a world with a developed civilization. However, the article's content clarified that the ... -
වැරැදි පාරේ රස සොයාගෙන ගිය නැටුම් ගුරුවරයා වසර 20ක් හිරේ: බාලවයස් අපයෝජනයක් පිළිබඳ අනුමත කළ හැකි වාර්තාකරණයක් ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-07-17)On the 17th of July 2024, Divaina Sinhala newspaper violated media ethics by simplifying the sexual crime, as 'rasa soyagena giya' (රස සොයාගෙන ගිය) committed towards an underaged male student by his dancing teacher. -
'ගණිකා නිවාස' වෙනුවට 'ලිංගික සේවා සපයන ස්ථාන?': ලිංගික ශ්රමිකයින් කොන් කිරීමට ලක් කරන යෙදුම් භාවිතයෙන් ඉවත් කරමු!
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-07-20)On the 19th of July 2024, Dinamina and Mawbima Sinhala newspapers referred to a sex establishment as “Ganika Niwasa” (ගණිකා නිවාස) thereby violating the media ethics. -
ගුරා ද? ගුරුවරයා ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-07-16)On July 15, 2024, Lankadeepa and Dinamina Sinhala newspapers 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, ...