ABSTRACT
Humanitarian intervention is the use of “military force” by a state against another state when the chief publicly declared aim of that military action is ending human rights violations being perpetrated by the state against which it is directed.
Responsibility to protect is mainly the treaty organization intervention in order to protect victims. This is because the R2P agreed on the fact that sovereignty is not absolute. There is however, a general consensus on some of its essential characteristics of humanitarian intervention such as:
i. Humanitarian intervention involves the use of sanction, threat and military forces as a central feature,
ii. The intervention is in response to situation that do not necessarily pose direct threats to state’s strategic interests, but instead is motivated by humanitarian objectives.
iii. The intervention deals with interferring with the internal affairs of a state by sending military force into the territory or airspace of a sovereign state that has not committed an act of aggression against another state.
Although intervention in the affairs of state is normally forbidden in international law, the international community may undertake collective intervention in a sovereign state on humanitarian ground. Collective intervention are those undertaken by the international community under the auspices of the United Nation.
