Fighting corruption still a voter priority: Survey

    Fighting corruption still a voter priority: Survey
    by |20 July 2020|Verité in the News
    Taken from - DailyFT Image courtesy - DailyFT By Uditha Jayasinghe Fighting corruption remains a high priority among voters despite the change of Government and no party making it their main campaign platform ahead of the Parliamentary Election, a well-known...
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    Information Disorder and Mainstream Media in Sri Lanka: A Case Study
    by |08 May 2020
    A considerable amount of research on 'fake news' or information disorder tends to to focus on social media as the producer and distributor of false content. Within this discourse on information disorder, mainstream media is often positioned as an inadvertent...
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    Sri Lanka: Resolution 30/1 Implementation Monitor: Statistical & Analytical Review No. 5
    by |28 February 2020
    This is Verité Research’s latest study on the Sri Lankan government’s commitments on reconciliation and accountability. The 43rd UNHRC Session began in February 2020, and Sri Lanka’s progress in implementing Resolution 30/1 was taken up on 27 February 2020. (more…)
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    Balancing short and long term interests vital for Sri Lanka in 2020 (Commentary)
    by |03 January 2020|Verité in the News
    Taken from - Mongabay By Nalaka Gunawardene Image courtesy - Nalinka Abeysinghe Sri Lanka enters 2020 at a time of political transition. With a new president in office and a parliamentary election due in the next few months, public and...
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    CSO Sustainability Index 2018 : Asia Report
    by |06 December 2019
    The Civil Society Organization Sustainability Index (CSOSI) assesses the sustainability of the CSO sector across several countries in different regions around the world. Since its inception in 1997, it has expanded from covering 18 countries in the Europe and Eurasia...
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    CSO Sustainability Index 2018 : Sri Lanka Country Report
    by |06 December 2019
    The Civil Society Organization Sustainability Index (CSOSI) assesses the sustainability of the CSO sector across several countries in different regions around the world. Since its inception in 1997, it has expanded from covering 18 countries in the Europe and Eurasia...
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    What are they Promising? #PresPoll2019
    by |13 November 2019
    Key highlights from election manifestos of 3 main candidates of Sri Lanka's Presidential Election 2019 Health Reconciliation National Security Education Corruption Tax Agriculture Constitutional Reform Youth Women Housing Foreign Policy Drug Menace Persons with disabilities Administration Judiciary LGBT Community Media...
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    ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවේ මැතිවරණ කාලය තුළ පුද්ගලික මාධ්‍ය නියාමනය කිරීමට මැතිවරණ කොමිෂන් සභාව සතු බලතල
    by |07 November 2019
    මැතිවරණ සමයක දී මාධ්‍ය නියාමනය කිරීම සදහා මාර්ගෝපදේශයන් නිකුත් කිරීමෙහි ලා ශී‍්‍ර ලංකාවේ මැතිවරණ කොමිෂන් සභාව මෙරට ව්‍යවස්ථාවෙන්ම බලගන්වා තිබේ. මැතිවරණ සමයක දී මාධ්‍ය නියාමනය සම්බන්ධයෙන් වර්තමානයේ පවත්නා කතිකාවත වඩාත්ම කේන්ද්‍රගතව තිබෙන්නේ  රාජ්‍ය මාධ්‍යයන් නියාමනය කිරීම සදහා මෙම මාර්ගෝපදේශයන් භාවිතාවන...
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    Powers of the Election Commission to Regulate Privately-Owned Media during Elections in Sri Lanka
    by |06 November 2019
    The Election Commission of Sri Lanka is constitutionally empowered to regulate the media during an election period by issuing media guidelines.The present discourse on media regulation during elections focuses on how these guidelines have been used to regulate state-owned media....
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    Sri Lanka’s Hill Country Tamils marginalized despite ending statelessness: report
    by |01 October 2019|Verité in the News
    Taken from - economynext Sri Lanka’s ‘Hill Country Tamils’, who for generations produced its main agricultural export, Ceylon tea, remains marginalised despite gaining formal citizenship requring remedies, a new study said. ” . . . the mere granting of ‘formal...
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