UPR Info convened the Pre-sessions from 11-14 December 2018 at the Palais des Nations, Geneva in advance of the 32nd session of the Universal Periodic Review. The international human rights conference gave the opportunity to national human rights defenders from Afghanistan, Cambodia, Chile, Dominican Republic, Eritrea, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, New Zealand, Slovakia, Uruguay, Vanuatu, and Vietnam to present their concerns and recommendations to Recommending States ahead of the country reviews at the UPR Working Group in January/February 2019.