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P0037_Nihal T_Criticism of the President
No full textThis submission includes English, Sinhala, and Tamil versions of the fact check.FALSE: It is prohibited to publish and exchange statements that insult the president on social media or any other media. The police is vested with the authority to take legal action against those who do so. – SSP Nihal Thalduwa, Divaina, 03 January 202
Private member’s bill: How does it work?
No full textThis infographic is available in English, Sinhala and TamilThese infographics explain who a private member is and procedures to be followed for a private member bill
නම නොමැතිව නොහැකිද?
No full textThis entry includes a write-up and an infographic (both in Sinhala)In the month of February 2022, an article published in Silumina on a 13-year-old who had allegedly run away from home to meet a person that she had found online, irrelevantly revealed the identity of the minor who is involved by mentioning her name, photo and and home address. It is a violation of media ethics as it could lead to interruptions to the minor's school education
Parliamentary report card: C.B. Rathnayake – September 2015 to March 2020 and August 2020 to January 2022
No full textThis infographic is available in English, Sinhala and TamilThis report card shows the contribution of MP C.B. Rathnayake (SLPP) in 8th and 9th parliaments. It is based on analysis of Hansard data from September 2015 to March 2020 (8th) and August 2020 to January 2022 (9th). This includes attendance in parliament sittings (239/414; 94/134), total number of productive interventions he made in parliament (8th - 50; 9th -108) and topics which were discussed most by him in the parliament i.e. Labour and Employment, Agriculture, Plantations, Livestock and Fisheries, Economy and Finance, Natural Resources and Environment and Governance, Administration and Parliamentary Affairs
ඔබ තෝරාගන්නා සිරස්තලය මින් කුමක්ද?
No full textThis entry includes a write-up and an infographic (both in Sinhala)In the month of January 2022, an article published in Sunday Aruna used a sensational headline when reporting on a crocodile seen in sea near Colombo that they were preying on humans, which creates unnecessary fear in the readers. An article published on Sunday Mawbima on the same accurately described the event in the headline that the crocodiles were mating
වාර්ගිකත්වය, බාහිර රූපය හා කොන් කිරීම්?
No full textThis entry includes a write-up and an infographic (both in Sinhala)In the month of February 2022, Silumina published an article on the death of a woman, where her physical appearance was irrelevantly highlighted in the headline as "suruupi", and her alleged lover's ethnicity was irrelevantly and negatively highlighted as "Muslim"
Political Career of Ranil Wickremesinghe
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 Ranil Wickremesinghe and details of his political career i.e. start date of political career, district elected, represented parties, positions and ministerial portfolios held. Ranil Wickremesinghe is the nephew of the former president, thus has family connections to politics. He has not made his asset declaration public
පුද්ගල ප්රථම භාෂාවක් භාවිතය සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
No full textThis entry includes a write-up and infographic (both in Sinhala).On October 23, an article published in Weekend Aruna newspaper (සති අග අරුණ) referred to persons with restricted growth as මිටි මිනිස්සු, thereby discriminating them. Instead using person-first language such as 'person with dwarfism' is recommended
සාවද්ය සහ නිරවද්ය වාර්තාකරණ
No full textThis entry includes 3 write-ups and 3 infographics (both in Sinhala).During the month of October in 2022, news published in Lankadeepa, Dinamina, Mawbima, Ada and Aruna violated the media ethical guideline of reporting inaccurate information. On October 13, Lankadeepa and Dinamina failed to accurately refer to Erik Solheim as the former UN Environment Executive Director. Mawbima reported it accurately. On October 20 Lankadeepa, Ada and Dinamina reported a story about a young woman's murder in Vavuniya in three different manners. On October 25, Aruna and Lankadeepa reported different reasons for a quarrel that took place at the Miss Sri Lanka New York competition
Parliamentary report card: Shantha Bandara – September 2015 to February 2020 and August 2020 to February 2022
No full textThis infographic is available in SinhalaThis report card shows the contribution of MP Shantha Bandara (SLPP) in 8th and 9th parliaments. It is based on analysis of Hansard data from September 2015 to February 2020 and August 2020 to February 2022. This includes attendance in parliament sittings 62/93; 141/142), total number of productive interventions he made in parliament (24; 186) and topics which were discussed most by him in the parliament i.e. Governance, Administration and Parliamentary Affairs; Economy and Finance; Justice, Defense and Public Order; Trade and Industry; Healt