A/74/148 coercive control; economic violence; serious neglect; female genital mutilation; “honour” crimes; trafficking of family members; child, early and forced marriage; forced “conversion therapy”; and reproductive coercion. 76. States should ensure, as a matter of domestic law, that factors such as culture, custom, religion, tradition or so-called “honour” shall not be considered as justification or mitigating circumstance for domestic violence. C. Protective measures 77. States should dedicate sufficient resources towards establishing accessible help lines, data-collection processes and intervention services capable of taking prompt and effective measures with a view to protecting victims and potential victims and their dependents from a real and immediate risk of domestic violence. 78. In order to have an objective basis for designing relevant policies and measures, States should collect relevant statistical data at regular intervals on all forms of domestic violence; support research on all forms of domestic violence, in particular with a view to examining its incidence and root causes and effects, as well as the effectiveness of measures to combat it; and ensure that data collected and research conducted on domestic violence are made available to the public. 79. In order to ensure safe accommodation for victims and their dependents, States should establish a sufficient number of accessible shelters across the entire territory within their jurisdiction. Any accommodation of victims in detention centres for their own protection from domestic violence must be exceptional, temporary and subject to the victims’ free and informed consent for the entire duration of such placement. 80. Where there is reason to suspect domestic violence but the perpetrator cannot be arrested, States should issue and enforce strict compliance with emergency “barring orders”, as well as court-mandated restraining or protection orders, to prevent the perpetrator from approaching or otherwise contacting the victim, subject to dissuasive sanctions. 81. States should regularly monitor all institutional and community-based long-term care settings where people may be accommodated and cared for and, where necessary and appropriate, should provide independent decision-making support services, in particular for people with disabilities and older people. 82. States should develop and implement at all levels and in an adequate geographical distribution comprehensive, coordinated policies and programmes to combat domestic violence, including gender-sensitive training of public officials as well as public education and awareness campaigns. 83. States should place the rights and needs of the victim, including the best interests of the child, at the centre of all legislative, judicial and administrative measures and implement those through effective cooperation among all relevant agencies, institutions and organizations. 84. Under no circumstances should States expel persons to places where there are substantial grounds for believing that they would be in danger of domestic violence amounting to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. 19-11892 21/23