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ලිංගික අතවරයක් වාර්තා කර ඇති අයුරු බලන්න!
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2025-01-04)On January 3, 2025, Lankadeepa, Aruna, Dinamina, and Divaina newspapers reported on an incident where a male police officer has sexually harassed a female police officer in police barracks. Both Lankadeepa and Aruna ... -
වාර්ගිකත්වය අදාළ ද? අවශ්‍ය ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2025-01-04)On December 12, 2024, Dinamina newspaper reported an incident where a young woman working as a massage therapist at a spa was arrested for a monetary scam. In the report, her ethnicity is mentioned as "drawida tharuniya" ... -
"ගංජාකාරයා" - මාධ්‍යට උචිත ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2025-01-03)On January 2, 2025, Lankadeepa newspaper published a report on the arrest of several individuals during a raid where a man was caught with marijuana. In the report the suspect is identified as "ganjakaraya" (ගංජාකාරයා) ... -
අනුරාධපුර ප්‍රදේශයේ දියණිය සමග මව දිවි තොරකර ගත් පුවත: සිංහල පුවත්පත් වාර්තාකරණ ඔස්සේ
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2025-01-03)On January 2, 2025, Aruna, Dinamina, Divaina, and Mawbima newspapers reported on an incident in which a mother died by suicide after murdering her two-year-old child. All four newspapers failed to publish helplines, mentioned ... -
"ගුරා" ද? "ගුරුවරයා" ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-05-15)On May 10 and May 11, 2023, state-owned TV channel ITN and privately-owned Hiru TV channel reported on the incident where a tuition master sexually harassed 16 students in Kalutara. Both TV channels used the derogatory ... -
"චීනා" ද? "චීන ජාතිකයා" ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-05-24)On May 23, 2023, Ada, Dinamina, Mawbima, and Aruna newspapers reported on an incident where a Chinese national entered Sri Lanka using a forged passport. News reportage on the incident by Ada, Dinamina, and Mawbima used ... -
"මෙහෙකාරිය" ද? ගෘහ සේවිකාව ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-05-23)On May 22, 2023, Lankadeepa, Aruna, and Divaina newspapers reported on the death of a domestic worker held in police custody. All three newspapers used the outdated and derogatory term "Mehekariya" (මෙහෙකාරිය) in the report. ... -
Patali Champika Ranawaka: Fuel prices
(www.factcheck.lk, 2024-11-05)FALSE: We heard on the election stages the claim that […] [they] would reduce the fuel price, remove/reduce taxes. […] Actually, around two weeks ago octane 92 petrol was brought into the country at Rs.195. Similarly, ... -
Sajith Premadasa: Child poverty
(www.factcheck.lk, 2024-08-14)TRUE: According to international statistics 25 percent of children in Sri Lanka are suffering from child poverty. […] Statistics have shown that 42 percent of our country's children are suffering from multidimensional ... -
Bandula Gunawardana: Expressways
(www.factcheck.lk, 2024-07-16)PARTLY TRUE: The foreign loans obtained to construct the expressways and have not been repaid yet amount to Rs. 800 billion. The annual profit [from expressways] is Rs. 5 billion. Even if we continue to earn a profit of ... -
'සුද්දා' ලේබල්කරණයෙන් වළකිමු!
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-05-17)On May 11, 2023, Aruna newspaper published an editorial related to the difficulties faced by foreign tourists travelling in Sri Lanka. The title and the content of the editorial used the derogatory term "Sudda" (සුද්දා) ... -
"මෙහෙකාරිය" ද? "ගෘහ සේවිකාව" ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-05-17)On May 15, 2023, Aruna, Dinamina, and Divaina newspapers reported on the death of a domestic worker held in police custody. Aruna used the more appropriate "Gruha sevikawa" (ගෘහ සේවිකාව) to refer to the domestic worker, ... -
"ගුරා" ද? ගුරුවරයා ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-05-15)From May 10 to May 12, 2023, Dinamina, Divaina, Mawbima, and Ada newspapers reported on an incident where a tuitionmaster has sexually assaulted 16 students in Kalutara. Dinamina, Divaina, and Mawbima used the derogatory ... -
"අරගලය" අදාළ ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-05-23)On May 23, 2023, Dinamina, Lankadeepa, Aruna, and Mawbima reported on an incident where a special task force raided a sex work racket and arrested seven individuals. When reporting, three newspapers Dinamina, Lankadeepa, ... -
අරගලයේ නායකයන් සහ කාටුන
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-05-19)On April 23, April 30, and May 14 2023 the Silumina newspaper published several cartoons under the Simple Man segment where there was problematic commentary regarding the leaders of the aragalaya (අරගලය) protest movement. ... -
"සුද්දා", "සුද්දී": ලේබල්කරණයෙන් වළකිමු
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-05-02)On April 17, 2023, two newspaper reports published in Aruna and Mawbima used derogatory terms "Sudda" and "Suddi" (සුද්දා, සුද්දී) in the heading to refer to foreigners based on their skin colour. Usage of such terms in ... -
"රූමත්" බව පුවතට අදාළ ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-05-02)On April 16, 2023 two newspapers Sathi Aga Aruna and Sunday Mawbima reported on an incident where an elementary school teacher was killed. In these reportages both newspapers highlighted the appearance of the teacher using ... -
ගණිකා මඩමක් වටලා කළමනාකරු හා කාන්තාවෝ 3ක් උසාවියට - "ගණිකා මඩම" අවශ්‍ය ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-02-22)On 22nd February 2024, Dinamina reported an incident in which the police arrested four individuals involved in sex work. In this report, they used the term "Ganika" (ගණිකා) to describe the sex workers and their profession. ... -
අවිවාහක කතක කෙලෙසූ පී.සී. වසර හතක් හිරේට - 'කෙලෙසූ' - අවශ්‍ය ද? 'අවිවාහක' - අදාළ ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-02-20)On 15th February 2024, the Aruna newspaper reported on a police officer being sentenced to prison for sexually assaulting a woman. In the headline, the term "Kelesima" (කෙලෙසීම) was used to describe the sexual assault, a ... -
මත්ද්‍රව්‍ය බෝම්බය - කතුවැකියක් සහ කාන්තාව ලිංගික වස්තුවක් ලෙසින් දැක්වීමක්?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-02-20)On 20th February 2024, the Divaina editorial reported on a drug-related incident involving a woman. In the editorial, they described the woman’s physical appearance, a practice that can contribute to the objectification ...