UN Human Rights Council closes ranks

Within a matter of days the UN Human Rights Council has unanimously condemned the violence of Libyan ruler Muammar al-Gaddafi against the population, and recommended that Libya be suspended as a member. The daily Le Temps is delighted: "Never has the UN's central human rights body been so credible or spoken so unanimously. The result is impressive. Within just a few days it has worked wonders, put its worst blunders behind it and silenced those conservative defenders of national sovereignty who have never stopped criticising it. The Arab Spring has now sprung in the Human Rights Council ... whose internal fronts seem to being crumbling away."

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