Blacks Say U.S. Still Has Progress to Make in Ensuring Equal Rights
About eight-in-ten blacks said in a 2009 poll that more changes were needed in the country to give them equal rights with whites.
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Sidebar: Initiatives and Actions Aimed at Reducing Religious Restrictions or Hostilities
The share of the worldโs countries with high or very high restrictions on religion has increased significantly in recent years, as documented in this study and previous Pew Research Center reports.1 Governments and societies around the world have attempted to address the rising tide of restrictions through a variety of initiatives and actions, from encouraging […]
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Arab Spring Adds to Global Restrictions on Religion
Pew Researchโs fourth major report on global restrictions on religion finds that the share of countries with high or very high restrictions on religion rose from 37% in 2010 to 40% in 2011. The Middle East and North Africa continued to have the highest levels of restrictions in the year when much of the Arab Spring uprisings occurred, with social hostilities involving religion increasing markedly and government restrictions remaining high.
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Innovative library services โin the wildโ
Our new report takes a close look not only at how Americans are using public libraries, but also what sort of services and programming they think libraries should offer โ and what they say they would use in the future. For this last point, we asked about a range of potential offerings. Here are illustrations of some of these more innovative services, to see what they look like on the ground โ as well as some โfun and funkyโ services that weโve seen pop up at libraries across the county.
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Chapter 7. Tunisia: Views of Key Leaders, Parties and Institutions
Tunisians hold positive opinions of their current leadership, their ruling political party, and their military. Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, Ennahda co-founder Rached Ghannouchi, and current President of the Constituent Assembly Mustapha Ben Jaafar all have majority support from the Tunisian people. The leading coalition party in the Assembly, the moderate Islamist group Ennahda, also garners […]
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U.S. Public, Hispanics Differ on Arizona Immigration Law
The American public has repeatedly expressed support for Arizonaโs immigration law, much of which was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday.
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Mexicans Back Military Campaign Against Cartels
As Felipe Calderรณnโs term as Mexicoโs president draws to a close, Mexicans continue to strongly back his policy of deploying the military to combat the countryโs powerful drug cartels, despite public unease about the moral cost of the drug war. Meanwhile, a majority of Mexicans say they have a positive opinion of the U.S.
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Chapter 5. Institutions and Leaders
President Asif Ali Zardari and former Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani continue to be unpopular, while two of their political opponents garner positive reviews from the Pakistani public. Imran Khan, a former cricket star and leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party (PTI), receives favorable ratings from seven-in-ten respondents. Nawaz Sharif, another key opposition figure, is […]
