Thanks to the generosity of donors, UNICEF and its partners helped save the lives of countless children suffering from hunger, malnutrition and disease in the region and reverse the famine in Somalia. As encouraging as these results are, the humanitarian crisis is far from over. Fast Fact.
In the South Carolina state election of 1832, attention focused on the issue of nullification, the concept that a state could ignore or refuse to apply federal laws.
Jury nullification is an American legal tradition that has played an important part in our history, going back to colonial times. It resulted in the acquittal of the participants in the Boston Tea Party, who deliberately defied the laws of the British king and his representatives in the American colonies.