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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). -
නිෂේධනාත්කම යෙදුම් භාවිතා කිරීම සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-09-29)On September 29 2022, Aruna and Dinamina published an article where they have respectively called a person addicted to drugs, an "ice putha" and a "mathloli putha". Meanwhile, Ada published the same news story without using ... -
බාලවයස්කරුවන් සම්බන්ධ වාර්තාකරණය සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-12-02)On December 01, 2022, Mawbima published an article that violates the media ethic of revealing the identity of minors in a negative context. Meanwhile, Ada published the same news story without revealing the identity of the minors. -
සංවේදී ඡායාරූප පළ කිරීම සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-12-05)On December 05 2022, Divaina published graphic and sensitive images of a dead body that was found floating in a river. -
වාර්ගිකත්වයන් අනවශ්‍ය ලෙස ඉස්මතු කිරීම් සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-12-12)On December 09 2022, Dinamina published an article where they have irrelevantly highlighted the ethnicity of a suspect as “Muslim” in a negative context. -
නිෂේධනාත්කම යෙදුම් භාවිතා කිරීම සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-12-08)On December 12, 2022, Mawbima published an article which used the derogatory term “gura (ගුරා)”, while Dinamina had published the same article where they have used the correct term “guruwaraya (ගුරුවරයා)” instead. -
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)”. -
Cigarette Taxation Formula - The Cost of Forgetting
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-05)In 2019 the government took a step in the right direction by introducing an indexation policy where taxes on cigarettes was proposed to be adjusted in line with GDP and inflation. Previous insights show that the foregone ... -
Sri Lanka Strategic Assessment 2016
(Colombo: The Asia Foundation, 2016-03)Sri Lanka underwent a major political transition in 2015 with the election of President Maithripala Sirisena and the establishment of a new coalition government between the United Front for Good Governance (UNFGG) and one ... -
Silent Suppression: Restrictions on Religious Freedoms of Christians 1994-2014
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2015)This study systematically analyses trends of restrictions faced by Christians over the past twenty years and aims to provide activists, academics, civil society, religious leaders and other relevant stakeholders key insights ... -
The President’s Pledges to Women — A review of the promises and progress made in President Sirisena’s pledge: “A New Sri Lanka for Women”
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2016-01)President Maithripala Sirisena pledged ‘A New Sri Lanka for Women’, during his election campaign. The pledge is an ambitious document; it comprises fifteen broad promises, by which the government seeks to alter the lives ... -
Provincial Council Elections 2014: Reading into the margins - Western and Southern Provinces
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014)Provincial Council elections were conducted in Sri Lanka’s Western and Southern provinces on 29 March 2014. This report analyses political party performance at these elections using historical, polling division, and ... -
Provincial Council Elections 2014: A Political Analysis—Central, Northern and North Western Province
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2013)Provincial Council elections were conducted in three of Sri Lanka’s nine provinces, the Central (CP), North-Western (NWP) and Northern Provinces (NP) in September 2013. These provinces, when combined together, account for ... -
Presidential Election of 2015: A reading from the Uva Province Election 2014
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2015)This report provides an analysis of the 2014 Uva Provincial Council election. It includes an explanation of the importance of this Provincial Council election and also provides an analysis of the results of elections in ... -
Reforming the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2018-03)This briefing note, on efforts to reform the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act, No. 13 of 1951 (MMDA), is presented in three sections. The first section identifies the key stakeholders in the current reform process, mainly ... -
Electoral Reform in Sri Lanka: Mixed-Member Proportional System
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2016)Presidential candidate Maithripala Sirisena’s manifesto, published after his election on 8 January 2015, included a response to a long-standing demand to reform Sri Lanka’s electoral system. This paper examines the key ... -
Mapping Sri Lanka's Political Parties: Actors and Evolutions
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2017-11)This report examines the histories of individual political parties in Sri Lanka. Over the course of Sri Lankan history, four political parties have dominated the political landscape: the United National Party (UNP), the ... -
TAF Public Finance Manual for Civil Society Organisations (CSOs)
(2022)Public finance is crucial with direct impact to the general public. It has been highlighted that the public of Sri Lanka does not have a good understanding about public finance. This public finance manual has the objective ... -
ගැටළු සහගත වාර්තාකරණය සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-06-03)In the month of June 2022, the newspapers Lankadeepa and Aruna reported the same incident with two different descriptions. According to Lankadeepa the victim was stabbed in the stomach, while Aruna reported that the victim ... -
දුමින්ද සිල්වා සම්බන්ධ වාර්තාකරණය සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-06-02)In the month of June 2022, Duminda Silva was arrested by the CID. The tv channels Sirasa, Derana, Rupavahini, Swarnawahini, ITN and Siyatha reported the news of his arrest, while the channel Hiru did not report the news.