PRESS RELEASE

No. 20/03

IACHR PLEASED AT PRESENTATION OF TITLE DEED
TO GARÍFUNA COMMUNITY IN HONDURAS

          The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is pleased at the delivery to the Sambo Creek Garífuna Community, by the Government of Honduras, of a final title deed in fee simple for a portion of its ancestral lands.

          The Government of Honduras acquired the property claimed by the Sambo Creek Garífuna Community through the National Agrarian Institute (Instituto Nacional Agrario, or INA) and then transferred it to the community.

          The IACHR recognizes the action taken by the Government of Honduras to settle the claim presented to it by the Organización Negra Fraternal Hondureña, or OFRANEH (Honduran Black Fraternal Organization), on behalf of the Sambo Creek Garífuna Community.

Washington, D.C., August 14, 2003