In thinking about a common ground that would engender a new practice, it is useful to think in terms of two initial objectives: 1) there are specific development activities that must become entitlements; and 2) human rights activities must contribute to create empowerment. The particular development activities that must become entitlements could be those that represent a high degree of overlapping between, on the one hand, the economic, social, and cultural rights, and on the other, the basic needs agenda of development, i e., food security, primary health care a education, and the fundamental rights of labor to organize, to equal pay for equal work,