An Empirical Study Of Humanitarian Intervention From The Perspective Of International Law

The word humanitarian intervention has a long history, which have appeared since fourteenth Century. It also has always been a hot topic in today’s international community. This paper expounds the meaning of the humanitarian, the interference and the humanitarian intervention and lists the humanitarian intervention in the relevant provisions of the charter of the United Nations at the same time. This paper takes the Kosovo war and the war in Libya for example, analyzing the traditional humanitarian intervention and modern humanitarian intervention. The two cases presented the defects of the humanitarian intervention, including great interference sovereignty principle, human rights have been infringed, violated the principle of non-interference, violated the ban on the use of force and threat of force principle. Combined with the appeal defect finally put forward the improvement of the humanitarian intervention. For example, to clear the limits of humanitarian intervention, to perfect the UN security council on humanitarian intervention research and decision-making mechanism, to clear legal status in handling international affairs. to establish procedures for supervision and punishment system, to clear the condition of humanitarian intervention, to make the jurisdiction of humanitarian intervention has a strict limitation.