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• Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program, Together With Foreword by Chairman Feinstein, and Additional and Minority Views (redacted declassified summary version released 2014), by United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, contrib. by Dianne Feinstein, John D. Rockefeller, Ron Wyden, Mark Udall, Martin Heinrich, Angus King, Susan Collins, Saxby Chambliss, Richard M. Burr, James E. Risch, Daniel R. Coats, Marco Rubio, and Tom A. Coburn (PDF at senate.gov)
• Investigation Into the Office of Legal Counsel's Memoranda Concerning Issues Relating to the Central Intelligence Agency's Use of "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" on Suspected Terrorists (redacted for public release, 2009), by United States Department of Justice Office of Professional Responsibility (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• No More Excuses: A Roadmap to Justice for CIA Torture (New York et al.: Human Rights Watch, 2015), by Laura Pitter and Leslie Haskell (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)
• Ethics Abandoned: Medical Professionalism and Detainee Abuse in the War on Terror (New York: Institute on Medicine as a Profession, c2013), by Task Force on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centers (PDF with commentary at imapny.org)
• The Report of the Constitution Project's Report on Detainee Treatment (Washington: Constitution Project, c2013), by Constitution Project Task Force on Detainee Treatment (PDF with commentary at detaineetaskforce.org)
• Getting Away with Torture: The Bush Administration and Mistreatment of Detainees (c2011), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

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• Arming the Torturers: Electro-Shock Torture and the Spread of Stun Technology (1997), by Amnesty International (HTML and PDF at amnesty.org)
• Law, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Terrorism (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2014), by Roger Douglas
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Superstition and Force: Essays on the Wager of Law, the Wager of Battle, the Ordeal, Torture (Philadelphia: H. C. Lea, 1866), by Henry Charles Lea
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Superstition and Force: Essays on the Wager of Law, the Wager of Battle, the Ordeal, Torture (third edition, revised; Philadelphia: H. C. Lea, 1878), by Henry Charles Lea
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Command's Responsibility: Detainee Deaths in U.S. Custody in Iraq and Afghanistan (New York: Human Rights First, 2006), by Hina Shamsi, ed. by Deborah Pearlstein (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Cameroon: Blatant Disregard for Human Rights (1997), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.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)

• Political Imprisonment in Cuba (reprint; CANF pamphlet #22; Washington, DC: Cuban American National Foundation, 1987), by Amnesty International (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Terror in Braunschweig: Aus dem Ersten Quartal der Hitlerherrschaft (in German; Zurich: Verlag Sozialistische Arbeiter-Internationale, 1933), by Kommission zur Untersuchung der Lage der Politischen Gefangenen (PDF in Germany)

• Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), by Ervand Abrahamian (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Command's Responsibility: Detainee Deaths in U.S. Custody in Iraq and Afghanistan (New York: Human Rights First, 2006), by Hina Shamsi, ed. by Deborah Pearlstein (PDF at Wayback Machine)

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

• Suspicious Sweeps: The General Intelligence Department and Jordan's Rule of Law Problem (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2006), by Christoph Wilcke (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Kenya, Violations of Human Rights: Communications Between Amnesty International and the Government of Kenya (1997), 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)

• The Battle for Libya: Killings, Disappearances and Torture (2011), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• Mexico: Amnesty International's Concerns Regarding Torture and Ill-Treatment in Mexico (1997), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)
• Systemic Injustice: Torture, "Disappearance," and Extrajudicial Execution in Mexico, by Joel Solomon (HTML at hrw.org)

• Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by US Personnel and Its Impact (2008), by Physicians for Human Rights (PDF with commentary at brokenlives.info)
• Ethics Abandoned: Medical Professionalism and Detainee Abuse in the War on Terror (New York: Institute on Medicine as a Profession, c2013), by Task Force on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centers (PDF with commentary at imapny.org)

• Report to the Special Committee of the Board of Directors of the American Psychological Association: Independent Review Relating to APA Ethics Guidelines, National Security Interrogations, and Torture (with supplementary materials from APA; 2015), by David H. Hoffman, Danielle J. Carter, Cara R. Viglucci Lopez, Heather L. Benzmiller, Ava X. Guo, S. Yasir Latifi, and Daniel C. Craig (PDF with commentary at apa.org)

• The Wire, by Amnesty International (full serial archives)

• Combating Torture: A Manual for Action (2003), by Amnesty International (PDF with commentary at amnesty.org)

• Istanbul Protocol: Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (2004), by United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (PDF at ohchr.org)

• Clemency and Cruelty in the Roman World (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), by Melissa Barden Dowling (page images at HathiTrust)

• Torture in Russia: "This Man-Made Hell" (1997), by Amnesty International (PDF with commentary at amnesty.org)

• Senegal: Climate of Terror in Casamance, by Amnesty International (HTML and PDF at amnesty.org)

• Syria: Torture, Despair and Dehumanization in Tadmur Military Prison (2001), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)
• Syria: Long-Term Detention and Torture of Political Prisoners (1992), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• The Report of the Constitution Project's Report on Detainee Treatment (Washington: Constitution Project, c2013), by Constitution Project Task Force on Detainee Treatment (PDF with commentary at detaineetaskforce.org)
• Getting Away with Torture: The Bush Administration and Mistreatment of Detainees (c2011), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (PDF with commentary at hrw.org)
• Inquiry Into the Treatment of Detainees in U.S. Custody (redacted unclassified version; 2008), by United States Senate Committee on Armed Services
  • PDF at senate.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Leave No Marks: Enhanced Interrogation Techniques and the Risk of Criminality (Washington, DC: Physicians for Human Rights, 2007), by Scott Allen, Devon Chaffee, and Farnoosh Hashemian (PDF with commentary at physiciansforhumanrights.org)
• Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by US Personnel and Its Impact (2008), by Physicians for Human Rights (PDF with commentary at brokenlives.info)
• Tortured Justice: Using Coerced Evidence to Prosecute Terrorist Suspects (New York and Washington: Human Rights First, c2008), by Deborah Colson and Avi Cover (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• International Migration and Human Rights: The Global Repercussions of U.S. Policy (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2009), ed. by Samuel Martínez (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)

• The Dilemmas of Laissez-Faire Population Policy in Capitalist Societies: When the Invisible Hand Controls Reproduction (Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, c1997), by Marc Linder (PDF files at Iowa)
• U.S. Commitment to International Population Planning (address to 1984 International Conference on Population, published as U.S. Dept. of State Current Policy #604; 1984), by James Lane Buckley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Transnational Social Policies: The New Development Challenges of Globalization, ed. by Daniel A. Morales-Gómez (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)
• The New Basis of Civilization (New York and London: Macmillan, 1907), by Simon N. Patten (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Bringing Them Home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families (1997), by Australia. Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HTML and PDF in Australia)

• Reducing the Barriers to International Trade in Accounting Services (Washington: AEI Press, 2001), by Lawrence J. White (PDF with commentary at AEI)

• Institutionalizing Unsustainability: The Paradox of Global Climate Governance (Berkeley et al.: Global, Area, and International Archive; University of California Press, c2012), by Hayley Stevenson (page images and PDF at escholarship.org)
• The Citizen's Guide to Climate Success: Overcoming Myths that Hinder Progress (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2020), by Mark Kenneth Jaccard (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
• Climate Alarmism Reconsidered (2004), by Robert L. Bradley (PDF with commentary at IEA)
• What has the Kyoto Protocol Wrought? The Real Architecture of International Tradable Permit Markets (Washington: AEI Press, 1999), by Robert William Hahn and R. N. Stavins (PDF with commentary at AEI)
• Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate (Chicago: Heartland Institute, c2008), by S. Fred Singer (PDF at heartland.org)
• Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (2014), by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (PDF files with commentary at ipcc-wg2.gov)
• Climate Change 2001: Mitigation, by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (HTML and PDF in Norway)
• Climate Change 2007: Mitigation, by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (PDF files with commentary at mnp.nl)

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