A/HRC/21/45 Since the preamble of the Charter of the United Nations begins with the words ―We the peoples‖, it is necessary to devise ways to give greater voice to civil society, to take the temperature of public opinion throughout the world so as to ensure that the will of peoples and nations is not supplanted by economic and geopolitical interests. At the same time a proper balance must be found so that populism does not denature democracy and frustrate the noble goal to serve the higher principle of human dignity. 2