Women’s Representation and Participation in Formal Politics

by |17 July 201821 July 2018|Interviews & Articles

By Daisy Perry Despite the drive for gender equality promoted at the Beijing UN World Conference on Women in 1995, the Sri Lankan State appears to have taken little responsibility for narrowing the gender gap in political representation. Savitri Goonesekere explains...

Women’s Participation at the Grassroots Level

by |17 July 201821 July 2018|Interviews & Articles

By Daisy Perry Drawing on the idea that the personal is political and challenging the notion that political empowerment can be measured solely with a seat in a legislature, this article focuses on the forms in which women who are not...

Labour

by |30 May 201806 August 2018

Research shows that the exclusion of domestic workers from the legislative framework contributes to the high level of vulnerability associated with domestic work, as well as a devaluation of the economic benefit of the services performed by domestic workers. A...

Low Wages And Outdated Laws: The Domestic Worker’s Dilemma

by |15 January 201720 June 2018|Verité in the News

Although many parts of the world had abolished slavery by the twentieth century, modes of unjust servitude exist, to this day, in the form of domestic workers who are paid a measly amount for their work. According to a recent...

Sri Lanka Domestic Workers: An Analysis of the Legal and Policy Framework

by |07 March 201528 November 2018

This report analyses the legal and policy frameworks applicable to domestic workers in Sri Lanka. The report uses global standards of decent work to offer a fresh perspective on the problem and aims to outline a strategy for sustainable reform...

Sri Lanka: Domestic Workers and Civil Society: In Sight but Out of Mind

by |04 March 201504 October 2018

Verité Research recently conducted interviews with 22 members of civil society organizations to assess the quantity and quality of research on the subject of domestic workers' rights in Sri Lanka. While measuring and evaluating current literature on domestic workers, this report...

Sri Lanka: Domestic Workers & Employers Survey

by |01 March 201505 November 2018

Verité Research recently conducted a survey amongst over 300 local domestic workers and their employers. The survey was conducted in the context of a serious dearth of data and information with regard to domestic workers who work in Sri Lanka....

Education inequality and affirmative action: Towards a better estimation

by |17 September 201318 December 2019

The working paper was presented at the CEPA Annual Poverty Symposium held in September 2013. The education sector had witnessed an overall decline in terms of budgetary allocations, and was also subject to inequality in distribution of educational opportunities within...

Employees Provident Fund (EPF)

by |28 March 201204 June 2019

The EPF’s management of equity investments are seriously at odds with its mission. It has hugely underperformed the All Share Price Index (ASPI), and earned only one fourth of what it would have earned if the same investment had been...

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