Intervention of States and Human Rights
When and how should States intervene in the affairs of other States with poor human rights records? What threshold of violations has to be corssed first? Who decides when it has been crossed?
The sovereignty of states remains paramount and as recognized in the UN Charter. However, other states may surpass the sovereignty clause in cases of gross human rights violations by the host state. For states to intervene in matters of another state, in matters concerning human rights violation, prior documentation of evidence pertaining to violation should exist. These documents give and support reason for intervention in matters of other countries (Knight, 2008).
In the Sudan, documented evidence pointed to gross human rights violations in the Darfur Region. The indiscriminate murder and continued killing of civilians amounted to genocide (Binder, 2008). As such, there rose a need for international intervention to stop the killings. Further, the documented mass killings of civilians in Somalia, in the early 1990s, prompted the international community to intervene to prevent further human rights violation.
According to the Resolution 1973, the international community has a responsibility to protect innocent and oppressed civilians from dictatorial and tyrannical leaders. As such, when the Gaddafi regime rose against the anti-regime protesters in 2011, the international community had no option, but to intervene. The Libya Army rose against the people, killing innocent, women and children, in what represented a gross violation of the rights of the people.
Considering the past atrocities that the Gaddafi...
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