On June 26 and 27, the West African Research Center (WARC) in Dakar, Senegal, was host to a two-day multidisciplinary conference on the crucial issues involved in the translation and dissemination of human rights documents in African Languages. The conference, organized by WARA’s African Language Materials Archive (ALMA) in collaboration with the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and Brandeis University, brought together a group of some 35 participants from Senegal and the Gambia. The group was comprised of jurists, linguists, literacy specialists, journalists (both print and broadcast), and representatives of grassroots organizations. This was the first time that such a multi-disciplinary group had gathered to confront the challenge of how to make available to the vast majority of the population which does not speak French or English, the legal instruments to which their states are party. The exchanges were rich and informative and the group has set in place a network to continue the work and specifically, to develop a database of legal & human rights terminology that can be used by translators, journalists and others, and to establish a repository of human rights materials (beginning with the five legal instruments of the African Commission) in Senegambian languages (Wolof, Sereer, Mandinka, Joola, et Pulaar) that will be catalogued and housed at WARC.