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So Hillary Clinton is going to Geneva, where on Friday the United Nations Human Rights Council meets to consider the popular uprising in Libya.

The 47-nation Council’s credibility is on the line here. Given Libya’s dubious human-rights credentials even before Moammar Gadhafi’s bloody crackdown on his own people, it is unacceptable that it should remain a member of the U.N. body to which it was elected last year.

Clinton should take the lead in Geneva to ensure that Libya is expelled â€" it is the very least she can do given President Obama’s framing of the protests across the Middle East as fulfilling aspirations for “universal rights.”

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