Kelly,
I could not get this to show up or print. It seemed to download to Abode and didn't say there was an error. But just a blank screen came up. Is anyone else having problems?
Kathy

I tried to and all I got was a blank screen just as Kathy did. i am very interested in seeing this because I am a scrapbook fanatic. Please see if the form can be fixed!

I just printed it using photo paper and the best resolution. The very cute page came out GREAT! Thanks, Kelly!

kelly..,
thank you for this adorable page..marion

I love this page and hope you're able to create more! Thanks!

A travesty of justice is happening in Guatemala today in Guatemala vs. Bruce Harris. Bruce Harris, Director of Casa Alianza, human rights child advocate and defender of street children throughout Latin America faces eight years in prison, whose only crime was speaking out against the illegal trafficking of infants

I am writing this unsolicited letter on behalf of Bruce Harris. The Criminal Sentencing Court of Guatemala will read their verdict tomorrow Friday January 30, 2004, for having exercised his right to freedom of expression when denouncing the corrupt practices of the child adoption business in Guatemala. In Guatemala defamation is considered a criminal offense rather than a civil offence as under international law. Mr. Harris could receive a sentence of up to eight years in a Guatemalan jail if found guilty.

Mr. Harris has been the leading advocate of street children in Latin America for over 13 years. Since becoming director of Casa Alianza in 1989, Harris has initiated over 800 judicial cases against Latin American governments, police officers and civilians for torturing and brutally murdering street children. In addition, Casa Alianza shelters hundreds of street children that have been prostituted out, raped or badly tortured. Mr. Harris receives death-threats on a regular basis. He gladly puts his life on the line everyday for these helpless children.

I have had the fortunate opportunity of working for Casa Alianza and with Mr. Harris these past two summers in Latin America as a legal intern. I am a public school teacher and evening law school student.

Please find below a brief summary of the fraudulent case against Mr. Bruce Harris:

The Twelfth Tribunal of the Criminal Sentencing Court notified its decision this week to proceed with the charges brought against Harris by the ex-wife of Guatemalan’s former President of the Supreme Court, Susana Maria Luaraca Saracho, brought criminal charges against Mr. Harris after a press conference by the Guatemalan Attorney General and Casa Alianza on September 11th, 1997. The press conference highlighted evidence of a group of Guatemalan lawyers and other individuals involved in a series of irregular international adoptions of Guatemalan children, a business now generating millions of dollars. Luarca Saracho de Umaña brought defamation, perjury and calumny charges against Harris.

Numerous Guatemalan legal instances, including the Constitutional Court, have rejected Mr. Harris’ argument of freedom of expression, ruling that he did not have freedom of expression as he was not a “member of the press”.

In August 2002, then United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights, Mary Robinson, expressed her concern over the cases in Guatemala. She stated that the “proceedings against Mr. Harris appear to be the result of an overly restrictive interpretation of the right to freedom of expression in the country.”

As a result of the press conference by Casa Alianza, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution, and Child Pornography visited Guatemala in 1999. In her final report, the Special Rapporteur stated, “the majority of adoptions from Guatemala are illegal.”

In 1999, Casa Alianza presented the case before the Inter American Commission on Human Rights in Washington, accusing the State of Guatemala of violating Harris’ right to freedom of expression and equality under the law as protected under the American Convention on

As a law student and volunteer for Casa Alianza this is nothing less than an attempt to silence a decent human being who has given his entire life to protecting the innocent and helpless.

If he is sentenced to jail on this false charge he will become nothing less than a martyr and hero for the people of Latin America and inflame the road to an already turbulent record of human rights violation throughout Latin America.

May God hear our prayers, the prayers of Bruce’s family, the prayers of his love-ones, the prayers friends and the prayers of ALL the children in Latin America, that Bruce is NOT sentenced and that goodness and righteousness triumphs and that this diabolic injustice have NO standing.

B Masbaum - You are a law student.

Because someone says that most Guatemalan adoptions are illegal is not proof...Until then, this is hearsay, not evidence.

You may learn more about Guatemalan adoptions on this site and what ACTUALLY must happen. Other than that, my comments on the subject are under the Bruce Harris Trial.

I have updated your form so that you can type information before you print it out. Email me and I'll send you a copy.

Thanks Ed. I did get the update, but then you spurred my curiosity and I found a way to add the fields and correct some of the glitches on the form.

For those of you looking at the form. Yes, it will take a tad longer....but you can fill out the form ONLINE and print it now. (Again, thanks to Ed for inspiring me to figure this out).

can anyone tell me what a I72,confirmation of consent form is? Homeland security is asking our attorney for this. thank you