This reporting is of interest for analysis because the intervention was based on the Responsibility to Protect - the aim to safeguard civilians. Therefore, the media representation of civilians and human rights abuses by the Gaddafi regime were especially relevant in influencing the public’s opinion on the legitimacy of the intervention. In this edition, Theresa Ogando outlines that the CNN’s broadcasting on Iman al-Obeidi used a gendered narrative of the ‘woman in need’ and thereby securitized the situation for Libyan civilians, supporting the legitimization of the 2011 NATO intervention.