A/HRC/22/56 jure and de facto practices that undermine its international and national human rights obligations. 78. The Special Rapporteur therefore recommends that the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran take the following actions to address the issues raised in the present and previous reports by the mandate holder: (a) Extend its full cooperation to the mandate holder by engaging in a substantive and constructive dialogue, and by facilitating a visit to the country; (b) Investigate immediately all allegations of reprisals against individuals who cooperate with international human rights instruments and organizations, and take measures to ensure adequate protection from intimidation or reprisals for individuals and members of groups who seek to cooperate or have cooperated with the United Nations, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights; (c) Desist from actions aimed at harming or intimidating those who work to identify human rights violations and promote redress, and those who cooperate with international human rights mechanisms; (d) Consider the immediate and unconditional release of civil society actors and human rights defenders prosecuted for protected activities, including journalists, netizens, lawyers and student, cultural, environmental and political activists who work to promote civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, currently detained for activities protected by national and international law; (e) Expedite its voluntary commitment to establish a national human rights commission, in accordance with the Paris Principles; (f) Examine and address those laws that contravene the State’s international obligation to eliminate all forms of discrimination in law and practice, including all laws and policies that undermine gender equality and women’s rights and discriminate against religious and ethnic minorities and members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in the country; (g) Consider the immediate release of prisoners of conscience, such as pastors Behnam Irani and Farshid Fathi, and the leaders of the Baha’i community, and fully honour its commitments under article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights that guarantee the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, which was accepted by the Islamic Republic of Iran without reservation; (h) Investigate all allegations of torture, address impunity and end the culture of investigation through confession as reflected by the breadth of reports communicated to the Special Rapporteur; (i) Consider a moratorium on capital punishment until the effectiveness of judicial safeguards can be meaningfully demonstrated, and stay the executions of individuals who have alleged violations of their right to due process; (j) Improve transparency on the impact of sanctions and report on measures it has taken to protect its inhabitants from the potential and actual negative impact of such sanctions; 79. The Special Rapporteur also calls on the United Nations system and on sanctionsimposing countries to monitor the impact of sanctions and to take all appropriate steps to ensure that measures, such as humanitarian exemptions, effectively serve their intended purpose of preventing the potentially harmful impact of general economic sanctions on human rights. 24