Lithuania has announced that migrants who agree to return to their countries of origin will be given €1,000, plus a plane ticket home. The amount has been increased from €300 to encourage more asylum seekers to leave voluntarily.
An Italian women's rights organization and the UNHCR highlight a multilingual resource to support migrant and refugee women who have suffered violence.
The UN refugee agency has announced that more than US$1 billion has been pledged by governments worldwide for its work next year. It has also received commitments totalling US$808 for 2023 and beyond.
Hungary's top court did not rule on a challenge to the primacy of EU law in its response to an EU court finding that Budapest broke the bloc's laws by deporting asylum seekers.
Fifteen EU countries have pledged to offer protection to nearly 40,000 people from Afghanistan. Germany alone has agreed to take in more than half of the evacuees.