Noun
humanitarian intervention (countable and uncountable, plural humanitarian interventions)
The deployment of army personnel for humanitarian-motivated goals.
I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms. Boris Yeltsin
I think no one knows what humanitarian intervention means. If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism. Stanley Hauerwas
I believe it's time for the left to revive its ethical foreign policy and in particular, rebuild the case for a progressive approach to humanitarian intervention. Jo Cox