There are thousands of documented cases of women and children abducted for forced labour or forced sex by Popular Defence Force militias constituted from northern ethnic groups operating in southern Sudan.
据记载，有数千起妇女和儿童被民防军民兵绑架事件，他们被迫从事劳役或性行为，这些民防军民兵来自北部族裔群体，在苏丹南部活动。