was actually dismissed. In 2004, Harris said that he would cooperate with the Honduran prosecutors investigating Harris for allegations of sexual misconduct with children. In 2005 the case was dropped because the prosecutors could not determine if any crimes had been committed, and found no evidence that Harris had abused children while they were at Casa Alianza in Honduras. Awards and recognition In 1991 Harris was named a "Hero of Human Rights" by Amnesty International. As director of Casa Alianza, he accepted the Olof Palme Prize in 1996. In 2000, he received the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Award of one million dollars, as well as the Order of the British Empire medal. He was also listed as one of "51 heroic activists" profiled in Kerry Kennedy Cuomo's Speak Truth to Power: Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World. In 2001, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, and he received the Archbishop Oscar Romero Award of the University of Dayton, USA, for his work in defending the human rights of street children in Mexico and Central America. References External links Legal case history at University of Minnesota Human Rights Library website 1955 births 2010 deaths Officers of the Order of the British Empire Human rights abuses in Guatemala Olof Palme Prize laureates Deaths from pancreatic cancer