A/HRC/28/77 58. National human rights institutions or ombudsman’s offices should consider establishing local offices or deploying staff to localities in which violence has taken place or is ongoing in order to closely monitor and report on situations. 59. Community and religious leaders should maintain inter-ethnic and interreligious dialogue when violence has broken out in order to help end violence and initiate action to protect minorities from continuing violence and possible atrocity crimes. 60. Media should report impartially and objectively on ongoing violence against minorities and conflict, using neutral language that does not aggravate tensions or increase the exposure of minorities to further violence. 61. As appropriate, non-governmental organizations and humanitarian actors should deploy staff and resources to provide assistance to minorities affected by violence. In the delivery of assistance, they should ensure that minorities participate in the formulation of resulting humanitarian strategies and that their operations do not expose their staff or any recipient of assistance to potential further violence. 3. Recommendations to regional and international actors 62. United Nations and regional human rights monitoring mechanisms should promptly monitor deteriorating situations of violence, including systematic and widespread sexual and gender-based violence, support initiatives in the area of humanitarian access and seek to employ all procedural and diplomatic means at their disposal to rapidly contribute to ending violence, for example by undertaking fact-finding missions to investigate atrocity crimes that may have been committed. 63. International and regional organizations should promptly assist States to engage in conflict resolution and stabilization efforts. They should ensure that such efforts address immediate protection concerns, as well as the structural causes of the conflict. International and regional organizations should ensure minorities’ participation in the formulation of resulting strategies for those efforts. Such inclusive approaches to consultation should also include minority communities which have not taken up arms. 64. The Human Rights Council, the special procedures, the Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide and other relevant mechanisms should consider ways of strengthening the processing, management and evaluation of information about ongoing serious violations of minority rights and bringing information rapidly to the attention of relevant United Nations decision-making bodies, including the General Assembly and the Security Council. 65. In upholding the responsibility to protect principle, a range of tools and measures that do not involve the use of force are available to regional and international organizations. They should be prioritized and used in a calibrated and targeted way to provide protection, including targeted economic sanctions and travel bans on suspected perpetrators of mass atrocities. 66. In situations in which there is little domestic accountability, and in order to avoid creating security vacuums that can leave minorities at heightened risk, international and regional rapid-response accountability measures should be in place to reinforce domestic accountability capacities. They should include measures to provide physical protection to judges, lawyers and human rights defenders, and legal assistance to try cases involving serious criminality as well as mass atrocities. 67. As appropriate to the circumstances and the nature and extent of the violence being perpetrated, and in conformity with international law and standards, including the principle of the responsibility to protect, the international community should consider all means necessary to end acts of violence targeted against minorities. While diplomatic, mediation 11