Humanitarian intervention between the protection of human rights and the principle of sovereignty

Abstract

Sovereignty is the cornerstone of international law, and its demise is the state that is the most important person in the international community. But major international humanitarian events have been a crucial station in the history of international law, where these transformations have had a profound effect on the emergence of new international principles such as humanitarian intervention, which has become strongly opposed to the principle of non-intervention. While in some respects it carries an assault on national sovereignty, in its other aspects it represents a mechanism for the protection of human rights from the repressive practices of authoritarian regimes, which hide behind the idea of sovereignty and the principle of non-intervention. But the real problem is how to overthrow the idea of humanitarian intervention by its principles on the ground without depriving it of its humanity, a selective intervention with double standards, as demonstrated by the experiences of humanitarian intervention in the Arab region.