Non-intervention in Syria and the lack of protection of human rights by the international community and comparison with the Libyan crisis

Regarding Syria, the non-intervention has highlighted that actions to protect human rights are at the discretion of the international community through the Security Council; only two resolutions have been adopted and they only required that a group of observers had to be sent. Another example of the flexibility of the R2P could be the failure of the Security Council to define its position about continuing human rights violations suffered by the Palestinian and Tibetan peoples. Possible intervention by the international community in these situations has not been considered, although there are many elements supporting intervention in compliance with the R2P.