bondage Nicole Is something everyone should try at least once. 030830 ... birdmad hmm, memory of an evening spent tied_to_a_chair prisoner_of_pleasure slave_of_sensation 030830 ... Insat Bondage + Domination + submission = Heaven ;) 030831 ... splinken bloodshot eyes, cellphone with dying battery, knuckle sandwich, knuckle sandwich, morning. 030911 ... fabreezio yea bitch 030927 ... nomatter spectacular 031005 ... Rasputin*s Robe Except for the thrill it brings my thrall, you'd not believe the balance and practice that goes into tying up her tits the way she likes. And I can only guess at the precarious pleasure of the trick she's got planned next. Woo. 031006 ... Jaguar [Beat me, Whip me, Make me feel good!] 031205 ... sara teasdale my soul is a broken field plowed by pain. 040619 ... miss lucifer my poison my pleasure my pain my addiction 050411 ... trox my life is like that. 050411 ... the daft shazniggity i made a paddle. she had padlocks for her piercings... i'm just a regular guy, but boy was it fun. regular romantic confluence is profane in comparification 050512 ... sad nomme "Report: 12 million people in bondage Published May 12, 2005 At least 12.3 million people worldwide work as slaves or in other forms of forced labor, the International Labor Organization said in a report Wednesday. In the first estimates of overall forced labor ever made by an international organization, the report said 2.5 million people were in forced labor from cross-border trafficking, with 1.2 million of them in the sex trade. The report, "A Global Alliance Against Forced Labor," estimated that profits from trafficked forced labor totaled $32 billion a year, or almost $13,000 per trafficked worker. Profits from sexual exploitation totaled $27.8 billion annually, or $23,000 per worker, said the labor arm of the UN." chicagotribune.com . "Forced Labor Victimizes 12.3 Million People, UN Says (Update1) May 11 (Bloomberg) -- About 12.3 million people are victims of forced labor, including 2.4 million who have been compelled to leave their homes for work that annually yields profits of $32 billion, according to the first United Nations estimate of slavery, debt bondage and other forms of exploitation. ``Forced labor is present in some form on all continents, in almost all countries, and in every kind of economy,'' the UN said. ``These include deeply entrenched bonded labor systems in parts of South Asia, debt bondage affecting mainly indigenous peoples in parts of Latin America and the residual slavery- related practices most evident today in West Africa.'' The 87-page report by the Geneva-based International Labor Organization said companies victimize 9.8 million people and governments force 2.5 million to work. The total could be as high as 14.8 million, the report said, based on potential sampling error. ``These numbers are real, because the ILO tends to be conservative,'' Terry Collingsworth, executive director of the International Labor Rights Fund, a Washington-based worker advocacy group said in an interview yesterday. ``This report will be very useful by groups like mine that want to pursue legal avenues against private actors.'' Lawsuits Readied Collingsworth said his organization is preparing a lawsuit against chocolate companies he said are complicit in forcing children to pick cocoa beans in Ivory Coast, the world's largest producer of the commodity. He said the suit would seek compensation for up to 10,000 children employed during annual harvests. ``Children are picking cotton in India, Egypt and Indonesia, tobacco in Mexico and Brazil, and coffee is another area where there are abuses,'' Collingsworth said. The ILO cited poverty, racial and ethnic discrimination and impunity as factors in forced labor, in addition to profits that amount to about $13,000 a year from the 2.4 million persons forced to leave their homes for work. Lee Swepston, an ILO expert on human rights, told reporters at the UN that the agency can't say whether the number of forced laborers is increasing because no previous estimates have been made. Swepston said there are about 360,000 forced laborers in the industrialized countries of Western Europe and North America, including what he described as ``isolated'' cases of migrant workers in the U.S. Limit on Prosecutions The ILO report, while citing progress such as national plans to end forced labor in Brazil and Pakistan, said governments should adopt laws against worker exploitation, assist victims, and adhere to international accords against human trafficking. ``Forced labor is not defined in any detail, making it difficult for law enforcement agents to identify and prosecute the offense,'' the ILO report said. ``In consequence of this, there have been very few prosecutions for forced labor offenses anywhere in the world.'' Swepston said debt bondage, where people are forced to work to pay back loans, is a particular problem in areas of Latin America and Asia where legal credit can't be obtained and borrowers have no recourse to courts to fight high interest rates. ``These are traditional societies outside the mainstream of economic development, and where there is an element of racial and ethnic discrimination,'' Swepston said. Slavery remains in societies such as Sudan that have been destabilized by civil war and others such as Mauritania where the practice is a societal tradition. Swepston said trafficking in 2.4 million workers involves the ``transport of persons across borders for the purpose of exploitation,'' and that the principal routes are from Africa to Europe and Asia to Europe and the U.S." bloomberg.com . 050512 ... still sad nomme "i-Newswire, 2005-05-12 - The new report, entitled A global alliance against forced labour, says that nearly 10 million people are exploited through forced labour in the private economy, rather than imposed directly by States. Of these, the study estimates a minimum of 2.4 million to be victims of human trafficking. The report also provides the first global estimate of the profits generated by the exploitation of trafficked women, children and men -- $32 billion each year, or an average of $13,000 from every single trafficked forced labourer. “Forced labour represents the underside of globalization and denies people their basic rights and dignity”, Mr. Somavia said. “To achieve a fair globalization and decent work for all, it is imperative to eradicate forced labour.” The report is the most comprehensive analysis ever undertaken by an intergovernmental organization of the facts and underlying causes of contemporary forced labour. It was prepared under the Follow-Up to the Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work adopted by the ILO in 1998 and will be discussed at the Organization’s annual International Labour Conference in June. The new study confirms that forced labour is a major global problem which is present in all regions and in all types of economy. Of the overall total, some 9.5 million forced labourers are in Asia, which is the region with the highest number; 1.3 million in Latin America and the Caribbean; 660,000 in sub-Saharan Africa; 260,000 in the Middle East and North Africa; 360,000 in industrialized countries; and 210,000 in transition countries. Forced economic exploitation in such sectors as agriculture, construction, brick-making and informal sweatshop manufacturing is more or less evenly divided between the sexes. However, forced commercial sexual exploitation entraps almost entirely women and girls. In addition, children aged less than 18 years bear a heavy burden, comprising 40 to 50 per cent of all forced labour victims. Approximately one fifth of all forced labourers globally are trafficked but the proportion varies widely from region to region, the report says. In Asia, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa, the proportion of trafficked persons is less than 20 per cent of all forced labour, while in industrialized and transition countries and in the Middle East and North Africa, trafficking accounts for more than 75 per cent of the total. Most forced labour today is still exacted in developing countries where older forms of forced labour are sometimes transmuting into newer ones, notably in a range of informal sector activities, the report says. Debt bondage frequently affects minorities -- including indigenous peoples -- that have long experienced discrimination on the labour market, and locks them in a vicious cycle of poverty from which they find it ever more difficult to escape. Many victims are working in remote geographical areas, where labour inspection presents a particular challenge. The report sheds new light on the emerging forms of forced labour affecting migrant workers, in particular irregular migrants, in rich and poor destination countries alike. It also examines the labour market conditions under which forced labour is most likely to occur, such as where there are inadequate controls over recruitment agencies and subcontracting systems, or weak labour inspection. The appearance of new forms of coercion in today’s globalized economy also raises some difficult policy questions. The report examines the strong pressures to deregulate labour markets as part of the overall drive to reduce labour costs and thereby increase competitiveness. “Forced labour is the very antithesis of decent work, the goal of the ILO”, says Mr. Somavia. “There is critical need for devising effective strategies against forced labour today. This requires a blend of law enforcement and ways of tackling the structural roots of forced labour, whether outmoded agrarian systems or poorly functioning labour markets.” The report makes the case that forced labour can be abolished, but only if governments and national institutions pursue active polices, vigorous enforcement and show strong commitment to eradicating such treatment of human beings. It also presents the positive experience in selected countries that, with ILO assistance, are now tackling forced labour by adopting strong legislation and enforcement mechanisms, implementing policies and programmes to tackle the underlying causes, and helping victims rebuild their lives. “Although the numbers are large, they are not so large as to make abolishing forced labour impossible”, Mr. Somavia says. “Thus, the ILO calls for a global alliance against forced labour involving governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations, development agencies and international financial institutions concerned with poverty reduction, and civil society including research and academic institutions. With political will and global commitment over the next decade, we believe forced labour can be relegated to history.”" i-newswire.com . 050512 ... and the sadness continues "...The new study confirms that slavery remains a major global problem to this day...slavery is present in all regions and in all types of economies. Forced economic exploitation is more or less evenly divided between men and women, however forced commercial sexual exploitation involves almost entirely women and girls. In addition, children bear a heavy burden, comprising between 40 to 50 percent of all slaves. There are at least two victims of forced labor for every 1,000 people worldwide..." www.theworldforum.org/ 050512 ... . . 050923 ... falling_alone i want a corset! 050923 ... Ishutan "sad nomme" has perhaps the best blathed post ever. That is the true use of language. 060801 ... nom all i did was copy and paste... 060801 ... LS Until we as a race relinquish our deathgrip on selfishness, there will always be slaves and masters. 060801 ... anti_matter tie my hands behind my back blindfold'd eyes see naught but black cut my skin, don't cut no slack excite me to a heartattack!! 060801 ... 15 ~ The Devil this relic: this something from the before! a torment you cannot bear to part with... it haunts you it thrills you its power wells within you, yet face to face: you run away! 070105 ... . . 110810 what's it to you? who go blather from