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MPs Attendance in Parliament - January 2024
No full textThis infographic is available in English, Sinhala and Tamil.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 passed - 9th January; Second reading of the Online Safety Bill passed - 24 January and Prorogation of the 4th session of the 9th Parliament - 26th January) took place in the parliament during 6 sittings in January 2024 as well it shows the 16 MPs with less than 25% attendance during these 6 sittings
වැරැදි පාරේ රස සොයාගෙන ගිය නැටුම් ගුරුවරයා වසර 20ක් හිරේ: බාලවයස් අපයෝජනයක් පිළිබඳ අනුමත කළ හැකි වාර්තාකරණයක් ද?
No full textThis entry includes a write-up and an infographic (both in Sinhala)On the 17th of July 2024, Divaina Sinhala newspaper violated media ethics by simplifying the sexual crime, as 'rasa soyagena giya' (රස සොයාගෙන ගිය) committed towards an underaged male student by his dancing teacher
දූෂිත කොන්ත්රාත්කරුවන් "බ්ලැක් ලිස්ට්" නොකරන එකම රට ශ්රී ලංකාව වෙරිටේ රිසර්ච් හෙළි කරයි = Sri Lanka is the only country not to "blacklist" corrupt contractors: Verité Research reveals
No full textpp. 5Lankadeepa page 5 feature of the Blacklisting press release sent out in November 2023. The corresponding research titled “Backwards in Blacklisting: Gaps in Sri Lanka’s Procurement Framework Enable Corruption” was conducted by Subhashini Abeysinghe, Bulani Weerawardane, Ishini Randeniya, Aarathi Sirinivasan, Mathisha Arangala and Jason Hingert from the Economics Team at Verite Research. This feature has been published in Sinhala
No Confidence Motion Against Speaker - Voting Breakdown
No full textThis infographic is available in English and Sinhala.On March 21, 2024, the No Confidence Motion brought against the Speaker of Parliament, Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, was defeated, by a margin of 42 votes. The following compilation of infographics reflects the list of MPs that voted in favour, against and MPs who were absent during the vote. 75 votes were cast in favour of the motion, while 117 votes were cast against it and 31 MPs were absent
Parliamentary report card: Chaminda Wijesiri – September 2015 to February 2020 and August 2020 to October 2023
No full textThis infographic is available in English and Sinhala.On January 9, 2024, SJB MP Chaminda Wijesiri announced his resignation as a member of parliament. VR's Manthri Team analysed his performance in the parliament. The report card shows the contribution of MP Chaminda Wijesiri in 8th and 9th parliaments. It is based on analysis of Hansard data from September 2015 to February 2020 and August 2020 to October 2023. This includes overall rank (41/225; 13/225), Badulla district rank (1/8; 1/9), attendance in parliament sittings (360/414; 285/304), total number of productive interventions he made in parliament (453, 528) and topics which were discussed most by him in the parliament i.e., Economy and Finance; Governance, Administration and Parliamentary Affairs; Technology, Communications and Energy; Urban Planning, Infrastructure and Transportation
"කුඩ්ඩා" ලේබල්කරණය පුවත්පත් තුළ භාවිතා වූ ආකාරය - 2022 සහ 2023 වර්ෂ අතර සංසන්දනයක්
No full textThis entry includes a write-up and two infographics (all in Sinhala).On 7th February 2024, the Ethics Eye team published an infographic with charts comparing the usage of the term "Kudda" in Sinhala newspapers between 2022 and 2023. The infographic highlights that, in 2023, Dinamina newspaper had the highest number of violations in this category, while Ada had no violations. Mawbima recorded the fewest violations in 2023. Dinamina, Lankadeepa, and Divaina recorded more violations in 2023 compared to 2022, whereas Mawbima and Aruna showed improvement with fewer violations in 2023 compared to the previous year. Ada newspaper had no violations in this category in both 2022 and 2023
IMF පළමු අදියරේ කැපවීම් 73කින් 60ක්ම ඉටු කරලා: වෙරිටේ රිසර්ච් කියයි = IMF first term commitments; 60 out of 73 were "met"
No full textFront page and page 2Divaina front page and page 2 feature of the IMF tracker first term evaluation press release sent out in January 2024. This feature has been published in Sinhala. This research was conducted by the Public Finance, Economics Team at Verite Research
20240807_P0118_FC_DullasAlahapperuma_PersonsWithDisabilities
No full textThis submission includes English, Sinhala, and Tamil versions of the fact check.TRUE: The latest census indicates that 34 percent of school-age children with disabilities in this country do not receive even a basic education [...]. However, these statistics are from 2012, from the last census.
Dullas Alahapperuma, Parliament, 5 June 202
Inside the Chamber - What happens if parliament is prorogued?
No full textThis infographic is available in English and Sinhala.This infographic provides insight about the changes happen in the parliament after the prorogation. The infographic highlights what happens to certain positions, business and committees in the parliament after the prorogation. The post further describes how a new session starts at the end of prorogation and the timeline of prorogations in the history of Sri Lanka's parliament
IMF Programme: Performance Evaluation - December 2023
No full textThis IKR entry contains 03 infographics available in English, Sinhala and Tamil. The IMF Tracker is available on the parliament monitoring platform manthri.lk of Verité Research, at https://manthri.lk/en/imf_tracker.The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has published its evaluation of Sri Lanka’s performance in the first phase or ‘first term’ of the ongoing Extended Fund Facility (EFF) programme, which commenced in March 2023. Verité Research updated its ‘IMF Tracker’, based on all information available, including in the IMF evaluation titled ‘First Review Under the Extended Arrangement Under The Extended Fund Facility’. Sri Lanka had ‘met’ (with some delays) 60 of the 73 commitments due by end-November 2023. The 13 remaining commitments were ‘not met’. Of these 13, eight have been carried forward into the second term, or the period leading up to the second review. Five were irreversibly ‘not met’, and therefore, cannot be carried forward. The IMF has now modified, or extended, the due dates of the 27 commitments which were due after end-November. These have been classified as ‘pending’ in IMF Tracker, along with the eight commitments carried forward. In addition to these 35 (27 + 8) commitments, Sri Lanka and the IMF added 75 new commitments to the program. Therefore, the second term began with 110 commitments ‘pending’ on Sri Lanka’s IMF program. The first review was focused on commitments that were due by June. Yet, there are four governance and transparency related commitments that were ‘not met’ even by the end of November. Foremost among these is 1) launching an online transparency platform related to public procurement and tax exemptions and 2) establishing a transparent and merit-based selection process for the directors of Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) in the Anti-Corruption Act