A/HRC/44/58 characteristics of victims and perpetrators, including their gender, age and ethnicity. This information is crucial to ensuring a comprehensive analysis of the scope of the problem of acts of intolerance for the design and implementation of policies to combat intolerance. 68. The Special Rapporteur calls upon States to intensify efforts to address intersectional forms of discrimination and intolerance. 69. The Special Rapporteur recognizes that combating denialism requires that the international community acknowledges and repairs the wrongs of the past. Education plays a key role in promoting diversity and dismantling historical denialism. The Special Rapporteur strongly emphasizes the importance of teaching the truth about slavery, colonialism, the Holocaust and other historical events and tragedies that have shaped our contemporary social, political, legal and economic structures. 70. The Special Rapporteur urges greater collaboration among representatives of different racial, ethnic and religious communities to combat forms of intolerance and discrimination they face in common. 16