| Summary: | This study evaluated the implementation of the concept of Responsibility
to Protect by the United Nations Security Council and aims to determine the
forms of human rights violations that caused the humanitarian crisis in Libya, the
meaning of the concept of Responsibility to Protect under international law and
the UN response in addressing the humanitarian crisis in Libya so that a
conclusion can be drawn picture of the implementation of the Responsibility to
Protect by the UN in Libya.
This normative legal research is exploratory (exploring) and a descriptive
with legislation approach, conceptual approach, and historical approach, whose
application tailored to the needs.
By using a variety of theories proposed by some scholars about the
responsibility to protect, humanitarian intervention, state sovereignty, and
protection of victims, as applied in international practice as well as theoretically
revised in academic discourse, the results showed that the state has a
responsibility to protect the public from the crime of genocide, crimes against
humanity, ethnic cleansing and war crimes. The international community is
responsible to assist countries in carrying out its responsibilities. If a country fails
to protect its people or even become perpetrator of the crimes above, then the
responsibility to protect switch to international community for humanitarian
intervention (Principle of Responsibility to Protect). Thus, state sovereignty is
considered as a responsibility namely responsibility to protect. The results also
showed that the Libyan government be unable or unwilling to provide protection
because it committed war crimes and crimes against humanity to its people that it
became a justification for the international community through UN Security
Council resolutions 1970 and 1973 to address the humanitarian crisis in Libya
through humanitarian intervention .
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