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"කෙළෙසීම්" - "හදි කිරීම්" ද? "ලිංගික අපයෝජනයන්" ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-08-14)On 12 August 2024, Hiru TV used the terms "කෙළෙසූ" (kelesu) and “හදි කිරීම්“ (hadi kireem) in news subheadings when reporting the Thanamalwila student’s sexual assault case. The announcer, however, used the more appropriate ... -
“ගණිකා” - ගර්හාත්මක ආකල්පයකට හේතුවක් නොවේ ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-08-15)On 14 August 2024 Dinamina and on 23 July 2024 Divaina reported on raids of sex service establishments, using the derogatory term “ගණිකා නිවාස” in both headlines and content. In its 31 July 2024 report on the arrest of ... -
පොලිස් නිලධාරියෙකු විසින් තිදෙනෙකු ඝාතනය කර, දිවි තොර කර ගැනීම පුවත්පත් මාධ්ය තුළ වාර්තා වූ ආකාරය
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-08-05)The triple murder and subsequent suicide of a police officer in Inginiyagala, Monaragala, on August 4, 2024, was reported by English, Sinhala, and Tamil newspapers on August 5. However, only Ada Sinhala newspaper included ... -
පොලිස් නිලධාරියෙකු විසින් තිදෙනෙකු ඝාතනය කර, දිවි තොර කර ගැනීම සිංහල පුවත්පත් මාධ්ය තුළ වාර්තා වූ ආකාරය
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-08-07)The triple murder and subsequent suicide of a police officer in the Inginiyagala area of Monaragala on Aug. 04, 2024 was reported by the Sinhala newspapers on the 5 August. Dinamina, Lankadeepa, Divaina, and Ada published ... -
"කෙලෙසීමක්" ද? " ලිංගික අපයෝජනයක්" ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-08-02)The reports published on 29 July 2024 and 2 August 2024 in Dinamina used the term 'keleseema' (කෙලෙසීම) in headlines to describe the sexual assaults. This term implies impurity or uncleanliness and unfairly stigmatizes the ... -
කාන්තා වෙසින් ඇවිල්ලා පිරිමියෙක් බොක්සිං ගහලා - මෙම පුවත ගැන ඔබේ අදහස?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-08-08)International news reports confirm that Imani Khalifa, representing Algeria in the 2023 Olympic boxing competition, is neither a man nor a transgender woman. However, on 7 August 2024, Dinamina published this story with ... -
වින්දිතයින් නම් “චීන ජාතිකයන්” - සැකකරුවන් නම් “චීන්නු” - ඔබේ අදහස?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-08-02)On August 1, 2024, the Aruna newspaper reported on two incidents involving Chinese nationals. In reporting the incident where they were victims, the report used the term “චීන ජාතිකයන්” (Chinese nationals), and in the second ... -
සුරූපී අදාළ ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-08-07)On 29 July 2024, Derana TV aired a news report about a man who posed as a police constable, deceived several women, robbed their jewellery and money, and then sexually assaulted them. The report referred to the women as ... -
මේ සතියේ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්මය - බාලවයස් අපයෝජන සහ ළමා හිංසන වාර්තා කිරීම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-08-05)On 5 August 2024, the Ethics Eye team published a four-slide post in its “Ethic of the Week” series. It offers guidance for media professionals on reporting underaged sex crimes and child abuse. -
සර්වජන බලය දේශපාලන සන්ධානයේ ජනපති අපේක්ෂකයා ලෙස දිලිත් ජයවීර නම් කිරීමේ පුවත සඳහා රූපවාහිනී පුවත් විකාශන තුළ ලබා දී තිබූ ගුවන් කාලය
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-08-05)This infographic presents the airtime each Sinhala television channel allocated on 4th 2024 to reporting Dilith Jayaweera's election as the Sarvajana Balaya Political Alliance presidential candidate, as well as to his ... -
"ජාවාරමා" අගති රහිත වාර්තාකරණයකට ගැලපෙන්නේ ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-01-08)On 31 July 2024, Lankadeepa and Dinamina reported that a police constable attended a liquor party at the home of a local drug dealer and allegedly assaulted another person while on duty at the North Central Inter-Provincial ... -
Ethic of the week: Accuracy matters!
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-01-12)On January 12, 2024, the Ethics Eye team published a three-slide post as part of its “Ethic of the Week” series. The post aimed to guide media professionals on accurate reporting and separating fact from fiction. -
Television and Sinhala Newspaper Coverage on the Accident and Death of State Minister Sanath Nishantha
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-01-26)On January 25 and 26, 2024, several newspapers, including Aruna, Dinamina, Mawbima, Lankadeepa, Divaina, and TV news like Hiru, Rupavahini, Derana, Sirasa, Swarnavahini, and Siyatha, disclosed the identities of Sanath ... -
Ethics Eye is looking for Spotters!
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-01-09)On January 8, 2024, the Ethics Eye team published a three-slide post on their facebook page encouraging followers and others to join the team as external media ethics violation spotters. -
Mere harm or statutory sex crime?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-01-05)On October 18, 2023, Dinamina newspaper reported two incidents: the sexual assault of a primary school student by a deputy principal and of a nine-year-old girl by her father. Dinamina described these suspected cases of ... -
Authorization Under Foreign Loan Act No. 29 of 1957 and Its Subsequent Amendments
(3/30/2020)On 30 March 2020, P.B. Jayasundara, Secretary to the President, instructed S.R. Attygalle, Secretary to the Treasury, to submit the documents and materials specified in the letter when requesting authorisation under the ... -
Information Note on the Proposed Issuance of Treasury Bills to the Central Bank of Sri Lanka
(3/12/2020)In its 12 March 2020 information note on the Secretary to the Treasury’s request for the Central Bank to issue Rs. 50 billion in treasury bills before 13 March 2020, the Economic Research Department of the Central Bank ... -
Observations on the Request for Central Bank Financing for an Energy Stabilisation Fund
(3/18/2020)In its 18 March 2020 observations on Treasury’s request to finance an Energy Stabilisation Fund, the Economic Research Department emphasised that all alternative options must be explored before seeking Central Bank funding, ... -
Government Borrowing Programme for the Period from September to December 2020
(9/24/2020)This letter, dated 24 September 2020, from W.D. Lakshman, Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, to S.R. Attygalle, Secretary to the Treasury, conveys the Monetary Board’s recommendations to the General Treasury, ... -
Report on the Balance of Payments Situation
(4/8/2020)This letter, dated 4 August 2020, from W.D. Lakshman, Governor and Chairman of the Monetary Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, to President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, outlines the balance of payments situation.