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Better Moderation of Hate Speech on Social Media: A Sri Lankan Case Study for Reputational-Cost Approaches
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-07)As social media becomes more involved in personal, business, and political relations, it has become increasingly important to prevent the spread of hate speech and disinformation on social media. At present, hate speech ... -
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, ... -
Religious violence against Christians: Disruptions and Distractions - November 2021 to October 2022
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-10)Ethno-religious violence is an enduring feature in Sri Lanka irrespective of the changes to the country’s socio-political and economic landscapes. This study offers insights into key patterns of violence directed against ... -
Civil Society Organization Sustainability Index 2021 for Asia: Sri Lanka Country Report
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-11)The Civil Society Organization Sustainability Index (CSOSI) assesses the sustainability of the CSO sector across several countries from different regions. Since its beginning in 1997, it has expanded from covering 18 ... -
IMF reveal 'first term' evaluation of Sri Lanka
(Colombo: Wijeya Newspapers, 2024-02-01)Daily FT Front page feature of the IMF tracker first term evaluation press release sent out in February 2024. This research was conducted by the Public Finance, Economics Team at Verite Research. -
SL needs 'B' credit rating for global market access
(Colombo, 2024-02-01)The Daily Morning Business front page features the presentation given by Nishan de Mel at a virtual event held by First Capital on the 30th of January 2024. The presentation touches on debt sustainability and global market access. -
නතාෂා එදිරිසූරිය අත්අඩංගුවට ගැනීම සම්බන්ධ රූපවාහිනී සහ පුවත්පත් වාර්තා
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-05)On 28 May 2023, Sinhala TV channels reported on the arrest of Nathasha Edirisooriya. The accusation levelled against Edirisooriya was that she insulted Buddhism during a comedy show at which she was performing. A majority ... -
පුද්ගල ප්රථම භාෂාවක් භාවිත කරමු!
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-05)In May 2023, Sinhala newspapers published articles about how a police constable had sexually abused a girl with polio. On 22 May this was reported by Lankadeepa and Aruna, and on the 23rd by Dinamina. The 3 newspapers had ... -
දිවි අහිමි කරගැනීම පිළිබඳ වාර්තාකරණයේදී මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම කඩවීම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-06)In the month of June 2023, Sinhala newspapers Mawbima, Aruna, Sathi Aga Aruna, Lankadeepa, Ada, Divaina, Dinamina, English newspapers The Island and Daily News and the Tamil newspaper Thamilan published several articles ... -
දිවි අහිමි කරගැනීම පිළිබඳ වාර්තාකරණ සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-07)During the month of July 2023, Sinhala newspapers Mawbima, Aruna, Divaina, Dinamina, Ada, Aruna, Lankadeepa, and Tamil newspaper Thinakaran published several articles which contained the following ethical violations related ... -
MPs Attendance in Parliament - January 2024
(Manthri.lk, 2024-02-23)This infographic shows the attendance of MPs in the parliament during the 6 sittings in January 2024. The infographic highlights main incidents (i.e. second reading of office for National Unity and Reconciliation Bill ... -
MPs Attendance in Parliament - March 2024
(Manthri.lk, 2024-04-20)This infographic shows the attendance of MPs in the parliament during the 7 sittings in March 2024. The infographic highlights 31 MPs who were absent for the No - Confident Motion against the speaker. Further, this infographic ... -
MPs Attendance in Parliament - April 2024
(Manthri.lk, 2024-05-22)This infographic shows the attendance of MPs in the parliament during the 5 sittings in April 2024. The infographic highlights the 14 MPs who have not attended a single meeting during these 5 sittings. Those MPs were Abdul ... -
ඍණාත්මක සන්දර්භයන් තුළ කාන්තාවන් පමණක් ඉස්මතු නොකරමු
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-09)An incident was reported on 31 August 2023 by Dinamina and Daily News of how a woman, along with three others had been arrested for the crime of torturing someone. Ada had reported on 18th September that two females along ... -
නිශේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-09)During the month of September 2023, Aruna, Divaina, Dinamina, Lankadeepa, Mawbima published articles which contained the following derogatory terms: "කුඩ්ඩා" (kudda), "ඊජීප්තුවා" (eejipthuva), "ජාවාරමුන්ට" (Jaavaramunta), ... -
මැයි 18 දින සැමරුම් සිරස්තල කිහිපයක්, කෝණ දෙකක්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-05)On 19 May 2023, Sinhala newspapers published articles about the ceremony that was held on 18 May 2023 to commemorate the deceased Tamil nationals who died during the Sri Lankan civil war. The papers which reported on this ... -
ලිංගික අපරාධ වාර්තා කිරීමේදී, සැහැල්ලු කොට දැක්වීම, හැඟීම් කළඹවන සුළු ආකාරයෙන් වාර්තා කිරීම සහ 'දූෂණය', 'කෙළෙසීම' යන යෙදුම් භාවිතා කිරීම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-09)On the 1st of September Sinhala newspapers Dinamina and Mawbima reported of an incident where a 19 year old man had abused a 14 year-old girl whom he had run away with. The newspaper headlines had trivialised the headlines ...