The Illegality Humanitarian Intervention

Humanitarian intervention is always a contentious problem in the domain of the international law. This thesis exposes and analyzes the humanitarian intervention in the perspective of international law in order to let us realize the illegal essence of humanitarian intervention and give some advice on its practice.The thesis, proceeding with the definition of intervention, firstly discusses the definition of humanitarian intervention, and then reviews the history of its development in order to make preparation for next charter's comments.Secondly, the thesis analyzes the illegal essence of humanitarian intervention from four aspects . It expounds that humanitarian intervention violates four major principles provided for in the UN Charter: "national sovereignty","prohibition from the use or the threat of use of force " , " non-intervention" and"national self-determination". And the thesis further exposes the so-called humanitarian intervention lack foundation in international law.In the end, the thesis analyzes the latest theory of humanitarian intervention and provides the writer's opinion of humanitarian intervention from three aspects: the protection of human right s by international law,the reform of the United Nations and the war of anti-terrorism.