Sexual Harassment in the Workplace — Overcoming Barriers to Justice

by |31 October 202329 November 2023

This report provides a legal gap analysis on sexual harassment through a non-discriminative lens of gender and sexual construct, which compares Sri Lanka’s international obligations against the national laws on sexual harassment at the workplace. International legislative practices as identified from...

Retirement Funds Face Regressive Taxation in Sri Lanka

by |12 October 202312 October 2023

In September 2023, Sri Lanka became the only country to restructure local currency debt by exclusively targeting retirement savings funds, excluding all others. This was justified by claiming that retirement savings were receiving preferential tax treatment. This insight finds both...

Fair Recruitment of migrant workers in Sri Lanka: A Legal Gap Analysis

by |30 November 202230 November 2022

Fair and effective recruitment practices have a significant impact on preventing and countering human trafficking. Universally accepted principles of fair recruitment suggest that workers should be well-informed of all aspects of employment, including the nature of the employment, payment mechanisms,...

ස්ත්‍රී පුරුෂ සමාජභාවයට අනුකූල වූ අයවැයකරණය: ප්‍රධාන කාර්ය සාධන දර්ශක පිළිබඳ ඇගැයීම ජූලි 2022

by |02 November 202228 November 2022

ශ්‍රී ලංකාව තුළ ස්ත්‍රී පුරුෂ සමාජභාවයට අනුකූල වූ අයවැයකරණය ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් ශ්‍රී ලංකා රජය අත්කර ගෙන ඇති අසාර්ථකත්වය මෙම වාර්තාව මගින් ඉස්මතු කෙරේ. රාජ්‍ය ප්‍රතිපත්ති සැලසුම් කිරීම දුර්වල වීම හේතුවෙන් සැලසුම් ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන ආයතන අතර වගවීම දුර්වල වන ආකාරය දක්වන...

Gender-Responsive Budgeting: Evaluating Key Performance Indicators July 2022

by |08 July 202220 October 2022

This report highlights the failure of the Sri Lankan government in implementing gender responsive budgeting in Sri Lanka. The case of gender KPIs provides a detailed case study of how poor planning of government policies can lead to poor accountability...

Costs of Doing a Job for Urban Women in Sri Lanka

by |25 May 202221 September 2022

This study aims to address the knowledge gap on how 'cost' factors can affect the choice architecture for women entering or exiting the labour force by estimating the monetary and non-monetary costs of doing a job for urban women in...

Hill Country Tamils: Analysis of Legal and Policy Issues Affecting Labour and Governance Structure

by |28 February 202229 July 2022

This report examines the socio-economic background and history of the Hill Country Tamil community (HCT) with a focus on health, education, labour and their primary engagement in the tea plantation industry. Thereafter, the report dives into the three main drivers...

ශ්‍රී ලංකාව කාබනික පොහොර වෙතට මාරු වීමට දැරූ ප්‍රයත්නය

by |27 September 202127 April 2022

ශ්‍රී ලංකාව 2021 අප්‍රේල් මස සිට රසායනික පොහොර ආනයනය තහනම් කරමින්, කාබනික පොහොර වෙත මාරු වීමට පියවර ගන්නා ලදී. පවතින රසායනික පොහොර තොග අඩු වෙමින් පවතින වාතාවරණයක් තුල පොහොර ප්‍රතිපත්තිය පිළිබඳව ගොවීන්ගේ අදහස් සහ එහි බලපෑම අවබෝධකර ගැනීම සඳහා වෙරිටේ...

Organic Fertiliser Transition in Sri Lanka

by |22 September 202114 March 2022

Sri Lanka introduced a ban on chemical fertiliser importation, and a shift to organic fertiliser starting April 2021. As existing stocks were beginning to deplete Verité Research conducted a survey in July to capture the views of the farmers on...

How Sri Lanka’s Overnight Flip to Total Organic Farming Has Led to an Economic Disaster

by |06 September 202117 September 2021|Verité in the News

Published in The Print New Delhi: Sri Lanka has been hit by a serious economic emergency even as it struggles to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic. Dwindling foreign exchange reserves, a sinking currency and soaring food inflation have come together to create...

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