a United States federal law that changed U.S. policy on China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR, or Xinjiang) with the goal of ensuring that American entities are not funding forced labor among ethnic minorities in the region.

In the years following World War II, large numbers of German civilians and captured soldiers were forced into labor by the Allied forces.

considered by the Soviet Union to be part of German war reparations for the damage inflicted by Nazi Germany on the Soviet Union during the Axis-Soviet campaigns of World War II.

Forced labour was used extensively in the Soviet Union and the following categories may be distinguished.