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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 ... -
Udaya Gammanpila: Increase in electricity bill
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/22/2023)PARTLY TRUE: From the very short period between last year's August and this year's March…the [electricity] bill increase [was]…1,138% for the poor man [a consumer who uses 30 units] and 160% for the rich man [a person using ...