 The Working Group on Equal Rights, composed of experts on government and law from the East German Academy of Sciences, Humboldt University and Socialist United Party Central Committee rejected the notion that women's rights should fall under a separate area designated by gender, but instead should be governed by the United Nations Human Right's position.Angela Davis was one of the key guests at the conference, as was Hortensia Bussi de Allende, former First Lady of Chile.The state-sponsored program advocated women's solidarity in the national struggles to free women from oppression based on class, race and gender through state socialism.