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නිෂේධනාත්කම යෙදුම් භාවිතා කිරීම සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
No full textThis entry includes a write-up and infographic (both in Sinhala).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 such derogatory terms
The Desirability of Domestic Debt Restructuring
Get PDF14p. The Background Notes of Verité Research Sri Lanka Economic Policy Group provide preliminary assessments, stating appropriate assumptions to overcome constraints in the availability of data. Members of the Verité Research Sri Lanka Economic Policy Group are Prof. Dileni Gunewardena, Prof. Mick Moore, Dr. Nishan de Mel, and Prof. Shanta Devarajan.Sri Lanka faces a challenge to emerge from the continuing economic crisis of unsustainable public debt. This paper sets out four important reasons to undertake an early domestic debt restructuring (DDR), by way of reprofiling the capital repayments. This will allow Sri Lanka to restore debt sustainability and economic stability more quickly, resiliently, and fairly, under the present dynamics. First, DDR provides a faster pathway toward solvency for the Government of Sri Lanka. Second, it provides the foundations for the stability of the economy (macro stability). Third, it reduces the likelihood of needing subsequent sovereign debt restructuring, and fourth, it facilitates a more equitable sharing of the costs to overcome the economic crisis
කොටියා ද? හිටපු එල්ටීටීඊ සාමාජිකයා ද?
No full textThis entry includes a write-up and infographic (both in Sinhala).On October 23, 2022 Divaina and on October 24, 2022 Daily News reported the pardoning of former LTTE cadres who were convicted by courts over LTTE activities including the bombing of former president Chandrika Kumaratunge. Divaina referred to the prisoners as කොටියා (Tiger) while Daily News referred to them as LTTE cadres
Most active MPs in parliament in October 2022
No full textThis infographic is available in English, Sinhala and TamilThis Infographic shows the most active MPs in the 9th Parliament in October 2022. They are Susil Premajayantha - SLPP, Kanchana Wijesekera – SLPP, Wijeyadasa Rajapaksha - SLPP, Sajith Premadasa - SJB and Mahindananda Aluthgamage – SLPP
Parliamentary report card: Manusha Nanayakkara – September 2015 to February 2020 and August 2020 to March 2022
No full textThis infographic is available in English, Sinhala and TamilThis report card shows the contribution of Manusha Nanayakkara (SJB) in 8th and 9th parliaments. It is based on analysis of Hansard data from September 2015 to February 2020 (8th) and August 2020 to March 2022 (9th). This includes attendance in parliament sittings (218/414; 84/150), total number of productive interventions he made in parliament (8th - 40; 9th - 78) and topics which were discussed most by him in the parliament i.e. Economy and Finance, Justice, Defense and Public Order and Labour and Employment
Fair Recruitment of Migrant Workers in Sri Lanka: A Legal Gap Analysis
Get PDFThis research report is only available in English.This report analyses and discusses the legal and policy issues surrounding recruitment practices for foreign employment that Sri Lankan migrant workers face. For this study, the team has selected issues relevant to three International Labour Organisation (ILO) General Principles on Fair Recruitment Practices. The report consists of four chapters. The first chapter will provide a detailed description of internationally recognised fair recruitment practices collated by the ILO, named the ILO General Principles. The chapter will also discuss the Sri Lankan legal framework relating to foreign employment, the country’s institutional
structure, and the extent to which it conforms with ILO General Principles. The second chapter will discuss legal and policy issues surrounding ILO General Principle 7 on the charging of recruitment fees in Sri Lanka, followed by possible solutions to the issues. The third chapter will discuss, in detail, issues related to dispute resolution that migrant workers face, and these issues
will be discussed in light of ILO General Principle 13. The final chapter will identify the issues surrounding poor labour standards, violation of human rights of migrant workers, and possible solutions to these issues including how bilateral agreements between
the origin country and destination country can improve the situation
Budget allocations 2023: Education
No full textThis infographic is available in English, Sinhala and TamilThis infographic depicts the percentage allocated for the Education in the Budget 2023 and the extent to which this topic has been discussed in the Parliament. Education has only been allotted 6.33% of the 2023 budgeted expenditure, ranking 3rd out of 10 key sectors. G.L. Peiris, Susil Premajayantha and Buddhika Pathirana were the MPs who contributed the most to this discussion
Political Career of Dinesh Gunawardena
No full textThis infographic is available in English, Sinhala and TamilThese infographics gives personal details (such as date of birth, educational qualifications, profession, family connections to politics) of Dinesh Gunawardena and details of his political career i.e. start date of political career, district elected, represented parties, positions and ministerial portfolios held. Dinesh Gunawardena is the son of the former members of parliament Philip Gunawardena and Kusuma Gunawardena, thus has family connections to politics. He has not made his asset declaration public
Parliamentary report card: Nalin Fernando – August 2020 to March 2022
No full textThis infographic is available in English, Sinhala and TamilThis report card shows the contribution of MP Nalin Fernando (SLPP) in 9th parliament. It is based on analysis of Hansard data from August 2020 to March 2022. This includes attendance in parliament sittings (138/150), total number of productive interventions he made in parliament (35) and topics which were discussed most by him in the parliament i.e. Justice, Defense and Public Order, Governance, Trade and Industry and Economy and Finance
බාලවයස්කාරියක ලිංගික සේවයේ යෙදවීම පිළිබඳ පුවත පුවත්පත් තුනක වාර්තා වී තිබූ අයුරු
No full textThis entry includes a write-up and an infographic (both in Sinhala)In the month of December 2021, Articles published in Sunday Aruna, Sunday Divaina, and Mawbima on a young girl being exploited to become a sex worker, which contained the ethical violations of highlighting the ethnicity of the perpetrator, describing the physical appearance of the perpetrator as "ruumath" and publishing on suicide without a helplin