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• The Future of Afghanistan (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 2009), ed. by J. Alexander Thier (PDF with commentary at usip.org)
• Afghanistan: Long War, Forgotten Peace (London: LSE Press, c2022), ed. by Michael Cox (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Detained and Denied in Afghanistan: How to Make U.S. Detention Comply With the Law (New York: Human Rights First, c2011), by Daphne Eviatar (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Afghanistan: Long War, Forgotten Peace (London: LSE Press, c2022), ed. by Michael Cox (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• The Pitfalls of Protection: Gender, Violence, and Power in Afghanistan (Oakland: University of California Press, c2017), by Torunn Wimpelmann (multiple formats with commentary at Luminos)

• Weaponizing Tear Gas: Bahrain's Unprecedented Use of Toxic Chemical Agents Against Civilians (Cambrige, MA and Washington: Physicians for Human Rights, 2012), by Richard Sollom and Holly Atkinson (PDF with commentary at physiciansforhumanrights.org)

• Dictatorship, Disorder and Decline in Myanmar, ed. by Monique Skidmore and Trevor Wilson (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Charter 08 (English translation with commentary, 2009), ed. by Perry Link, contrib. by Liu Xiaobo
  • HTML at chinafile.com
  • original Chinese text: HTML at 2008xianzhang.info
• Was There a Tiananmen Massacre? The Visit of General Chi: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session, December 18, 1996 (Washington: GPO, 1998), by United States House Committee on International Relations (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China: Chinese and Canadian Perspectives (c2009), ed. by Errol Mendes and Sakunthala Srighanthan (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)
• Strategic Trends in China (1998), ed. by Hans Binnendijk and Ronald N. Montaperto (HTML at fdlp.gov)
• "You Will be Harassed and Detained": Media Freedoms Under Assault in China Ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games (2007), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Umbrella Movement: End Politically Motivated Prosecutions in Hong Kong (in English and Chinese; 2018), by Amnesty International (PDF files at amnesty.org)

• Civil Liberties and Social Order: Consultation Document (1997), by Hong Kong (China) Chief Executive's Office (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Umbrella Movement: End Politically Motivated Prosecutions in Hong Kong (in English and Chinese; 2018), by Amnesty International (PDF files at amnesty.org)

• Umbrella Movement: End Politically Motivated Prosecutions in Hong Kong (in English and Chinese; 2018), by Amnesty International (PDF files at amnesty.org)

• The Invisible Hand on Hong Kong's Media (2016), by Reporters Without Borders (PDF with commentary at rdf.org)

• China Rights Forum (published in New York by Human Rights in China; issues online 1999-2014) (partial serial archives)

• China Rights Forum (published in New York by Human Rights in China; issues online 1999-2014) (partial serial archives)

• Fight Against Terrorism and Extremism in Xinjiang: Truth and Facts (published in English by the UN OHCHR, redacted, as an appendix to its Assessment of the Human Rights Situtation; 2022), by Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) (PDF at ohchr.org)
• Assessment of Human Rights Concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China (2022), by United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (PDF at ohchr.org)
• China's Far West, Conditions in Xinjiang One Year After Demonstrations and Riots: Roundtable Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, Second Session, July 19, 2010 (Washington: GPO, 2010), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China
  • PDF and text at ccec.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust

• China's Censorship of the Internet and Social Media, the Human Toll and Trade Impact: Hearing Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, First Session, November 17, 2011 (Washington: GPO, 2012), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China (page images at HathiTrust)

• Media Freedom in China: Roundtable Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Second Session, June 24, 2002 (Washington: GPO, 2002), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China
  • PDF and text at cecc.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust

• China's Forbidden Zones: Shutting the Media out of Tibet and Other "Sensitive" Stories (2008), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)
• "You Will be Harassed and Detained": Media Freedoms Under Assault in China Ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games (2007), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)
• China's Pursuit of a New World Media Order (in English, Chinese, and French; 2019), by Reporters Without Borders (PDF files with commentary at rsf.org)
• Media Freedom in China: Roundtable Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Second Session, June 24, 2002 (Washington: GPO, 2002), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China
  • PDF and text at cecc.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship: How the Communist Party's Media Restrictions Affect News Outlets Around the World (Washington: Center for International Media Assistance, National Endowment for Democracy, 2013), by Sarah G. Cook (PDF at ned.org)

• China's Far West, Conditions in Xinjiang One Year After Demonstrations and Riots: Roundtable Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, Second Session, July 19, 2010 (Washington: GPO, 2010), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China
  • PDF and text at ccec.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship: How the Communist Party's Media Restrictions Affect News Outlets Around the World (Washington: Center for International Media Assistance, National Endowment for Democracy, 2013), by Sarah G. Cook (PDF at ned.org)
• China's Censorship of the Internet and Social Media, the Human Toll and Trade Impact: Hearing Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, First Session, November 17, 2011 (Washington: GPO, 2012), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China (page images at HathiTrust)

• China's Algorithms of Repression: Reverse Engineering a Xinjiang Police Mass Surveillance App (in English, Chinese, Arabic, and other languages; New York: Human Rights Watch, 2019), by Maya Wang (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at hrw.org)

• Crossing the Line: Georgia's Violent Dispersal of Protestors and Raid on Imedi Television (New York: Human Rights Watch, c2007), by Jane Buchanan (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Iraq: The Situation of Iraqi Refugees in Syria (2007), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• Broken Lives: A Year of Intifada (2001), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)
• Israel / South Lebanon: Israel's Forgotten Hostages: Lebanese Detainees in Israel and Khiam Detention Centre (1997), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)
• Israel's Apartheid Against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime Against Humanity (c2022), by Amnesty International (PDF with commentary at amnesty.org)

• Shutting Out the Critics: Restrictive Laws Used to Repress Civil Society in Jordan (New York: Human Rights Watch, c2007), by Christoph Wicke (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Israel / South Lebanon: Israel's Forgotten Hostages: Lebanese Detainees in Israel and Khiam Detention Centre (1997), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• Pakistan: Time to Take Human Rights Seriously (1997), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)
• Contemporary Forms of Slavery in Pakistan (New York et al.: Human Rights Watch, c1995), by Farhad Karim (PDF at hrw.org)

• Report from Amnesty International to the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic (1983), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)
• Syria, Repression and Impunity: The Forgotten Victims (1995), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)
• Scientists and Human Rights in Syria (1993), by National Academy of Sciences Committee on Human Rights (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Syria: Long-Term Detention and Torture of Political Prisoners (1992), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)
• Syria, Caught in a Regional Conflict: Lebanese, Palestinian, and Jordanian Political Detainees in Syria (1999), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)
• Syria (AI briefing #16; 1979), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• Losing Ground: Human Rights Defenders and Counterterrorism in Thailand (web version; New York et al.: Human Rights First, c2005), ed. by Eric R. Biel, Neil Hicks, and Michael McClintock (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Karimov's War: Human Rights Defenders and Counterterrorism in Uzbekistan (web version; New York: Human Rights First, c2005), by Archana Pyati, ed. by Neil Hicks (PDF at Wayback Machine)

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