Editing Economy of Sudan (section)

===Forced labor===
{{Main|Slavery in Sudan}}
The 1998 constitution prohibited forced and bonded labor, although it did not specifically prohibit [[Human trafficking|trafficking]] in persons.<ref name="loc2015a" /> Nevertheless, there were credible reports that [[slavery]] persisted, particularly affecting women and children, and that the seizure and sale of women as domestic servants continued.<ref name="loc2015a" /> All sides in the Sudanese conflict also conscripted men and boys forcibly into their fighting forces.<ref name="loc2015a" /> In May 1998, the government formed the Committee for the Eradication of the Abduction of Women and Children, which resulted in the identification and release of several hundred abductees, but the government did not police the laws on forced and bonded labor effectively.<ref name="loc2015a" /> In November 2001, the government announced the establishment of special civilian tribunals in the border regions separating the South and the North of the country to prosecute persons involved in the abduction, transport, holding, and selling or exchanging of women and children from war zones.<ref name="loc2015a" /> Even so, as late as 2010, the Committee surmised that possibly 10,000 or more abductees from groups such as the Misiriyyah and Rizayqat as well as South Sudanese were engaged in some form of forced labor in the border regions.<ref name="loc2015a" />