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  2. Treaty - Wikipedia

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    A treaty is a formal, legally binding written contract between actors in international law. It is usually made by and between sovereign states, [1] but can include international organizations, individuals, business entities, and other legal persons. [2] [3] A treaty may also be known as an international agreement, protocol, covenant, convention ...

  3. Convention on the Rights of the Child - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (commonly abbreviated as the CRC or UNCRC) is an international human rights treaty which sets out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children. [4] The convention defines a child as any human being under the age of eighteen, unless the age of ...

  4. Oregon Treaty - Wikipedia

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    The Oregon Treaty is a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United States that was signed on June 15, 1846, in Washington, D.C. The treaty brought an end to the Oregon boundary dispute by settling competing American and British claims to the Oregon Country; the area had been jointly occupied by both Britain and the U.S. since the Treaty of 1818.

  5. Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) - Wikipedia

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    The Treaty of Fort Laramie (also the Sioux Treaty of 1868 [b]) is an agreement between the United States and the Oglala, Miniconjou, and Brulé bands of Lakota people, Yanktonai Dakota, and Arapaho Nation, following the failure of the first Fort Laramie treaty, signed in 1851. The treaty is divided into 17 articles.

  6. Kellogg–Briand Pact - Wikipedia

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    Kellogg-Briand Treaty at Wikisource. The Kellogg–Briand Pact or Pact of Paris – officially the General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy [1] – is a 1928 international agreement on peace in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever ...

  7. Jay Treaty - Wikipedia

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    The Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, Between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America, commonly known as the Jay Treaty, and also as Jay's Treaty, was a 1794 treaty between the United States and Great Britain that averted war, resolved issues remaining since the Treaty of Paris of 1783 (which ended the American Revolutionary War), and facilitated ten years of peaceful ...

  8. List of treaties - Wikipedia

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    Treaty of Potsdam (1805) Prussia agrees with Russia to join the Third Coalition against France if Napoleon rejects peace terms. Treaty of Schönbrunn (1805) Prussian treaty of friendship with France. Peace of Pressburg (1805) Between France and Austria, ending Austria's participation in the War of the Fourth Coalition .

  9. Treaty of Alliance (1778) - Wikipedia

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    The Treaty of Alliance (French: traité d'alliance (1778) ), also known as the Franco-American Treaty, was a defensive alliance between the Kingdom of France and the United States formed amid the American Revolutionary War with Great Britain. It was signed by delegates of King Louis XVI and the Second Continental Congress in Paris on February 6 ...