The framework of human rights can be usefully applied to addressing a number of deprivations that children face in society. The importance of human rights relates to the significance of the freedoms that form the subject matters of rights-freedom from hunger and freedom from es-capable mortality.The discipline of human rights has much to offer in systematizing the perfect and imperfect obligations that society has towards children.Human rights generate reasons for action for agents who can help in safeguarding and promoting the interest of children