January 2017

by |31 January 201728 May 2018|Press Release

Facilitating Trademark Registration: Towards creating globally recognised Sri Lankan brands Sri Lankan businesses go through a lengthy and costly process to register their trademarks abroad. As a solution, the Government of Sri Lanka decided to join the Madrid Protocol. This...

Agri exports: What’s holding Sri Lanka back?

by |18 January 201728 May 2018|Press Release

The effects of domestic NTBs on agricultural export growth A study by Verité Research (VR) together with the Lanka Fruit and Vegetables Producers, Processors and Exporters Association (LFVPPEA) found that domestic barriers faced by Sri Lankan exporters at the border...

Low Wages And Outdated Laws: The Domestic Worker’s Dilemma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

Groundviews Forecast for 2017 with Janeen Fernando

by |10 January 201716 July 2018|Interviews & Articles

This is the first in a series of video interviews forecasting what 2017 will have in store across different sectors, including women’s rights, economics, and arts and culture. Janeen Fernando from Verité Research speaks about the major areas of reform...

දින සියයේ වැඩපිළිවෙළ අසාර්ථකයිද?

by |09 January 201719 June 2018|Verité in the News

2015 ජනවාරි 09 වැනි දින ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ හයවැනි විධායක ජනාධිපතිවරයා ලෙස මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන දිවුරුම් දුන්නේය. ජනපති සිරිසේනගේ ඡන්ද ව්‍යාපාරය දිවෙන ලද්දේ කෙටිකාලීන සහන වැඩසටහන් සහ දිගුකාලීන ව්‍යුහමය වෙනස්කම් පිළිබඳ පොරොන්දු රැගත් දින 100 වැඩපිළිවෙළ පදනම්වය. මෙම පොරොන්දු ජනාධිපතිවරයා පත් වී...

71 out of 100: Yahapalanaya’s 100-Day Programme in retrospect

by |08 January 201719 June 2018|Verité in the News

Manthri.lk, a website dedicated to monitor the performance of Parliamentarians, under an initiative of Verite Research, has given a score of 71% to the Maithripala Sirisena administration, based on its latest assessment on the promises fulfilled in terms of the...

Survivalist and Irrepressible: The Two Faces of the Sri Lankan Media

by |06 January 201719 June 2018|Verité in the News

Introduction The past decade produced two critical moments of transition in Sri Lanka. On 19 May 2009, a 30-year war came to a brutal end with the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). On 9 January 2015,...

Man on a mission to topple Govt. in 2017

by |02 January 201719 June 2018|Verité in the News

Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday vowed to make it his mission to topple the National Unity Government and regain power in 2017, nearly two years after he was ousted in a shocking election upset. During a meeting with Colombo-based foreign...