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Budget allocations 2023: Agriculture
No full textThis infographic is available in English, Sinhala and TamilThis infographic depicts the percentage allocated for the Agriculture in the Budget 2023 and the extent to which this topic has been discussed in the Parliament. Agriculture allocation (5.60%) ranks 4th out of 10 key sectors. Mahindananda Aluthgamage, Charles Nirmalanathan and Kanchana Wijesekera were the MPs who contributed the most to this discussion
Syndicated Surveys: Mood of the Nation - Round 03 2022 (Press Release)
No full textSyndicated Surveys by Verité Research which gauge public sentiment on Sri Lankans' various social and political viewpoints. The data is collected through a telephone interview and a nationwide randomised sample of around one thousand people is taken into consideration. The Mood of the Nation poll is conducted periodically by Verité Research and is based on an island wide nationally representative sample of responses. The sample and methodology are designed to limit the maximum error margin to under 3% at a 95% confidence interval, which meets the gold standard of surveys. The Mood of the Nation survey is designed to assess the approval, satisfaction, and confidence of the nation in relation to the government, the country, and the economy. The poll is based on an island wide nationally representative sample of responses from 1,000 plus Sri Lankan adults. The poll is conducted as a part of the syndicated survey instrument by Verité Research and the polling partner was Vanguard Survey (Pvt) Ltd. This instrument also provides other organisations the opportunity to survey the sentiments of Sri Lanka
රුසියානු- යුක්රේන අර්බුදය 2022: වැරදි ඡායාරූප
No full textThis entry includes an infographic and a write-up (both in Sinhala)In the month of March 2022, an article published in Divaina used old photographs from past incidents to report on the Ukraine-Russia crisis 2022, which is a media ethics violation as it misinforms and misleads the public
Parliament prorogation
No full textThis infographic is available in English, Sinhala and TamilThis set of infographics explain what a prorogation is, what happens when parliament is prorogued, and past prorogations in parliament. Since 1947 parliament has been prorogued 52 times and since the second republican constitution in1978, parliament has been prorogued 22 times
Budget allocations 2023: Health
No full textThis infographic is available in English, Sinhala and TamilThis infographic depicts the percentage allocated for the Health in the Budget 2023 and the extent to which this topic has been discussed in the Parliament. Health sector is ranked 2nd out of 10 key sectors and only allotted 8.79% of the 2023 budgeted expenditure. Channa Jayasumana, Pavithradevi Wanniarachchi and Rajitha Senarathne were the MPs who contributed the most to this discussion
Political Career of Anura Kumara Dissanayake
No full textThis infographic is available in English, Sinhala and TamilThese infographics gives personal details (such as date of birth, educational qualifications, family connections to politics) of Anura Kumara Dissanayake and details of his political career i.e. start date of political career, district elected, represented parties, positions and ministerial portfolios held. He has no family connections to politics and has not made his asset declaration public
Female Representation in Sri Lankan Legislatures
No full textThis infographic is available in EnglishThis set of infographics show representation of female parliamentarians and its percentage composition from the State Councils (1931) to Parliament of Sri Lanka (to present). Over 50% of Sri Lanka’s population are women but in the legislature representation of women has always been under 6%. It also highlights the females in the legislatures in selected countries in the region (i.e. Singapore 29%, Bangladesh and Pakistan 21%, India and Malaysia 15% and Maldives 5%)
Most discussed topics in parliament in January 2022
No full textThis infographic is available in English and SinhalaThis Infographic shows the most discussed topics in January 2022 at the 9th Parliament and the top contributing MPs to those topics. Topics and contributors are Economy and Finance (Sajith Premadasa – SJB), Justice, Defense and Public Order (Harin Fernando - SJB), Agriculture, Plantations, Livestock and Fisheries (Rohini Kumari Wijerathna – SJB), Governance, Administration and Parliamentary Affairs (Amarakeerthi Athukorala - SLPP) and Rights and Representation (S. Noharathalingam – ITAK)
"රූමත්"? "රාගාධික": අ(න)වශ්ය ද? අදාළ (නො)වේ ද?
No full textThis entry includes an infographic and a write-up (both in Sinhala)In the month of March 2022, Silumina, Aruna and Mawbima reported on a death of a woman, where her physical appearance was irrelevantly highlighted as pretty and sensual, which leads to stereotyping and discrimination of women
ඍණාත්මක සන්දර්භයන්හි අදාළ නොවන වාර්ගිකත්වය ඉස්මතු කිරීම්
No full textThis entry includes an infographic and a write-up (both in Sinhala)In the month of March 2022, Ethics Eye published an infographic which presents a comparative study of 2020 and 2021, analysing the data pertaining how ethnicity was irrelevantly and negatively highlighted in the Sinhala press. It shows that by the end of 2021, the number of times that ethnicity was highlighted in the press has increased compared to the end of 2020