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Examining Humanitarian Intervention from the Perspective of Morality

Humanitarian intervention in its classic sense refers to unilateral or multilateral interference of a state/states into the domestic affairs of another state through resort to force and for humanitarian purposes and objectives. There are plenty of questions with respect to humanitarian intervention including: Is humanitarian intervention ever permitted under international law? How can one establish the legal validity of such intervention? Can the Charter of the United Nations, international custom, or state practice provide justificationʹ? What are the differences between intervention, self-help, and self-defense? What are the conditions of permissibility? What is meant by gross violation of human rights? But there is a fundamental question which is the focal point of this paper: Is humanitarian intervention morally justified? On the basis of which moral theory can it be justified? Obviously, states are morally responsible for the violation of basic human rights. There is also no doubt when human rights are violated systematically, grossly and in a widespread manner so that human conscience is shocked, non-action on the part of international community is not morally justified. This article, while studying the moral grounds of such a duty, examines the limits and scope of humanitarian intervention and the requirements of its moral justification.