In this chapter, the move towards humanitarian intervention and the rise of human rights discourse is examined in terms of the politics of protection and international ordering. Since the end of the Cold War, human rights and human security has become a central focus of the international security agenda. Intervening to defend and protect human rights is now an embedded practice and norm in international relations. This chapter explores how humanitarian intervention and human rights discourse is inherently gendered and how it reworks masculinism in subtle and discreet ways. Working from the perspective of the politics of protection, it queries the discourses that permit a more robust form of military humanitarian intervention to protect human rights and to ‘save women’.