A/HRC/38/44/Add.1 (qq) Protect journalists and media professionals from attacks, including by setting up relevant protection programmes and investigating all deaths of such persons and prosecuting alleged perpetrators regardless of their status or functions. 85. The Special Rapporteur recommends that religious and community leaders: (a) Speak up, through fatwas, Friday prayers or other relevant directives, against ethnic and religious intolerance and gender-based discrimination and violence, and support reconciliation measures, address mistrust and fear and denounce revenge and retaliations; (b) Advocate for the integration of all the affiliated forces and fighters into a united ISF. 86. The Special Rapporteur recommends that international actors: (a) Endorse the recommendations in the present report and advocate for their implementation by the Federal Government and/or the Kurdistan Regional Government; (b) Provide technical, financial and strategic support to the relevant authorities to support the implementation of recommendations related to criminal legal reforms, ratification of international treaties, accountability for crimes committed by ISIL and all other parties to the conflict, transitional justice, and gender-based crimes; (c) Urge Iraqi authorities to ensure that all defendants, including foreign nationals, have access to consular services and legal representation, receive a fair trial with their due process rights met, and do not receive the death penalty; (d) Individual Member States should address current accountability deficits for ISIL crimes and, under the principle of universal jurisdiction, prosecute perpetrators currently in their country’s territory under the appropriate international legal framework, including for war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide; and undertake active investigations into gender-based persecution and crimes, in order to hold those responsible to account; (e) States members of the Coalition Forces should undertake an independent evaluation into the impact of their aerial bombardments and other military operations in terms of civilian casualties and report publicly and transparently about the findings. 87. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the Investigative Team established under Security Council resolution 2379 (2017): (a) Address the gap between the objectives of the resolution and the Iraqi legal framework, and urge and support the Federal Government and the Kurdistan Regional Government to incorporate international crimes into national legislation and support the establishment of specialized court(s); (b) Urge the Government of Iraq to allow the Investigative Team to broaden its investigations to include violations by all sides to the conflict, including Coalition Forces; (c) Ensure that evidence collected, preserved or stored by the Team is not used in trials that could lead to the application of the death penalty. 88. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court consider undertaking investigations into foreign fighters who have held high-level ISIL positions and who are nationals of countries that have ratified the Rome Statute, for crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court. 21