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    • Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Transport 

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      Media Team       (www.factcheck.lk, 1/9/2020)
      PARTLY TRUE: Only 52% of our country uses public transport… 48% of the people use private transportation. - Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Daily News, 30 November 2019

    • Moves to remove law on submiting family background of female migrant workers 

      Divide;
      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 1/28/2020)
      The manner in which Sinhala and Tamil press reported on the moves by the government to remove laws where women who seek jobs abroad have to provide details of family background.

    • Political Prisoners 

      Divide;
      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 7/19/2019)
      The manner in which the Sinhala and Tamil press reported on the hunger strike launched by eight political prisoners in the Anuradhapura prison.

    • Mandarin: a threat to Tamil 

      Divide;
      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 7/19/2019)
      The manner in which the Sinhala and the Tamil press reported on Chinese Mandarin language being a threat to Tamil.

    • 28th anniversary of the Sathurukondan massacre 

      Divide;
      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 7/18/2019)
      The difference between how the Tamil and Sinhala press covered the 28th remembrance event on the Sathurukondan massacre in Batticaloa.

    • EU (revision of) Minimum Residue Level: Potential Effects on Exporting MSMEs 

      Verité Research (Geneva: CUTS International, 2018-05)
      The note illustrates the views of, and challenges faced by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) as well as monitoring organisations on the requirements of the Maximum Residue Level (MRL), for pesticide use, that exporters ...

    • Powers of the Election Commission to Regulate Privately-Owned Media during Elections in Sri Lanka 

      Legal Team (Verité Research, 2019-11)
      The regulation of the media during an election period to ensure free and fair elections has a reasonably long history in Sri Lanka. The Election Commission of Sri Lanka is constitutionally empowered to regulate the media ...

    • Mapping of Medical Services Sector: Key Figures, Structure, and the Current National Regulations 

      Verité Research (Geneva: CUTS International, 2019-01)
      This note provides information on the medical services sector, along the lines of outpatient services and dental services. It also illustrates the challenges faced by, and regulations that govern the sector.

    • Newspapers that have violated ethical guidelines when reporting on COVID-19: 2020 April 01-30 

      Ethics Eye Team (Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-30)
      On 30 April 2020 Ethics Eye published an infographic summarising the number of times Aruna, Dinamina, Divaina, Lankadeepa, Mawbima (and their Sunday variants) violated the guidelines issued by the Ministry of Healthcare ...

    • Inappropriate Reporting on Suicide 

      Ethics Eye Team (Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-30)
      On April 28, 2020 and April 29, 2020 Aruna, Ada, and Mawbima reported on suicide in a manner that did not comply with media ethics guidelines

    • Negative Terms 

      Ethics Eye Team (Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-05-01)
      On April 30, 2020 Mawbima and Lankadeepa published articles containing the term "Kudda" in their headlines

    • State-Owned Enterprise Reforms in Sri Lanka: The Way Forward 

      Knight, Malathy; Guruge, Aneesha; Cham, Maria Rowena (Manila : Asian Development Bank Institute, 2017-10)
      The authors provide a comprehensive analysis of Sri Lanka’s extensive SOE sector. The sector has witnessed episodes of nationalization and privatization and has been subject to varied degrees of competition. Yet, despite ...

    • Logistics and Services in the Sri Lankan Economy 

      Abeysinghe, Subhashini; Abeyratne, Sirimal (Manila : Asian Development Bank Institute, 2017-10)
      Authors examine the growth, performance, and policy issues of the Sri Lankan service and logistics sectors. The government has clear priorities for these sectors, building on the country’s locational advantage. The policy ...

    • Sri Lanka: Resolution 30/1 Implementation Monitor: Statistical and Analytical Review No. 5 

      Statistical and Analytical Review; No. 5
      Legal Team       (Verité Research, 2020-02)
      Resolution 30/1 was co-sponsored in 2015. It contains 36 distinct commitments that fall into five broad thematic categories: 1. Transitional justice and reconciliation 2. Rights and rule of law 3. Security and demilitarisation ...

    • Ranjith Madduma Bandara: Crime reduction statistics 

      P0005;
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 12/18/2019)
      PARTLY TRUE: During the last four years, the rates of all forms of crime […] declined drastically […] under this government compared to the previous Rajapaksa regime. The murder rate which was 646 in 2012 has decreased to ...

    • Mahinda Rajapaksa: Women in universities 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 12/20/2019)
      TRUE: Today, the percentage of women studying in universities exceeds 50 percent. - Mahinda Rajapaksa, Divaina, 2 October 2019

    • Udaya Gammanpila: Muslim population growth 

      P000;
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 11/28/2019)
      BLATANTLY FALSE: In comparison to the 5 to 9 age group, the Sinhala population in the 0 to 4 age group has increased by 0.5%. But the Muslim population has increased by 1.4%, or threefold… When considering the trends in ...

    • Wimal Weerawansa: MCC agreement 

      P0001;
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 11/13/2019)
      FALSE: …last week, the [US] Millennium Challenge Agreement was signed in Parliament. Once signed, a special economic corridor will be built from Trincomalee to Colombo Port. - Wimal Weerawansa, Ada, 7 November 2019

    • Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Rape statistics 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 11/6/2019)
      TRUE: 1,600 [young] girls are raped every year - Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Divaina, 25 October 2019

    • Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Release of military occupied land 

      E464;
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 10/31/2019)
      FALSE: "We are the people who released 90% of the land" - Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Inaugural Press Conference, 16 October 2019