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Does the International Community Has the Obligation to Intervene when the Human Rights are Violated Somewhere?

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights says that “all human beings” <...> “should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood”. Now, when certain countries have leaders who violate the human rights of its own citizens (as well as perhaps others residing on its teritory), are we not obliged – as human, as the international community as a whole – to act together and free the peoples of those countries from the tyrants who opress the people and commit the crimes *against humanity*? I would like to argue that it is not just our duty, but it is our *obligation* to do so. Isn’t it sickening to look back and see that we – the humans of this world – allowed Saddam Hussein to perpetrate crimes against humanity for so many years without even saying “hold on”? He was torturing, murdering and even….mass-murdering the humans, thus reducing the human life to nothing, and yet we allowed him to perpetrate the crimes against humanity and brought him to justice only a while ago!

As you say under international law there is a duty to take action when human rights are violated. The system is to do something thru the united nations. The organization is legally required to take action when a consensus get be arrived at in the general assembly. Getting the consensus is the problem when member states don’t support resolutions in majority or fail to actually do anything about the issue for whatever reason.