The humanitarian intervention in Kosovo in 1999 (Ananos, 2010) and the serious violation of Human Rights that occurred during the internal conflict in Rwanda in 1994 (Holzgrefe, 2003), led to the debate between sovereignty and protection of Human Rights. Human Rights within the framework of the United Nations. This, in order to find a way to reconcile the need to protect those rights and maintain the principle of sovereignty that characterizes the States (Ananos, 2010). In this sense, the United Nations began to promote the notion of 'Responsibility to protect', which states that States and the international community are responsible for protecting the population of the territories around the world from war crimes, genocide , ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. However, one of the points that has caused the most debate is the fact that, among its proposals, the possibility of carrying out military actions - better known as humanitarian interventions - is considered in order to react to conflicts that threaten human rights , which would pose a challenge to sovereignty. That is why this document is framed in the reflections on sovereignty in relation to humanitarian interventions, for which a case study is taken that allows to develop an analysis in which they are combined; the responsibility to protect, humanitarian intervention and the question of state sovereignty. For this, the case that is studied in the following pages is the one of the humanitarian intervention that was carried out in Libya during 2011. This, will allow to understand how -if somehow- an intervention protected in the argument of the responsibility of protect can have an impact on sovereignty. In this sense, the question that will guide this analysis is posed: what problems does sovereignty face in the light of international humanitarian intervention in the case of Libya during 2011? To answer the research question, this research proposes as a general objective to analyze the sovereignty situation in light of the international humanitarian intervention in the case of Libya during 2011. For the development of this research, we start from the hypothesis that sovereignty is one of the main features of States, which have remained a leading player in the international arena since the Peace of Westphalia, managing to overcome the different economic dynamics, social and cultural issues for centuries. Currently, humanitarian interventions have challenged this sovereignty, although this has not translated into the fact that state sovereignty has become a concept that is subordinated to the decisions of the international community -represented in the interests and strength that emanate from the Security Council-, rather, means that the sovereignty of States can be permeable, allowing the entry of actors that interfere in very specific situations. This has been done following the procedures and frameworks determined in international regimes, according to which the case must be presented before an international organization in which a call is made to the State where a conflict situation arises, so that it takes the pertinent actions autonomously and, in the event that it fails to resolve it, international agencies take measures to counteract the conflict. During the humanitarian intervention that took place in Libya in 2011, by NATO, there was a process of permeability in its sovereignty, in order to meet a call made from the multilateral scenario and making use of the international regimes related to it. with Human Rights. However, this permeability did not imply in any way the elimination of the sovereignty of the Libyan State, although it did impact on the government's exercise of authority for the period of time that the intervention lasted, generating the characteristics of a permeable sovereignty to determine cohesion of the Libyan State. In this context, the first step to address the general objective, will be the construction of the context of what happened in Libya before the humanitarian intervention. For this, in the chapter that is developed next, the characteristics of Gaddafi's government will be presented in a general way and some of the factors that led to the intervention will be presented.