A new book by Dr Michelle Foster, Senior Lecturer and Director of the International Refugee Law Research Program in iIlaH, was launched by the Hon Tony North, a Justice of the Federal Court of Australia and President of the International Association of Refugee Law Judges. The book, "International Refugee Law and Socio-Economic Rights: Refuge from Deprivation", is the first to consider the cutting edge issue of refugee claims based on the deprivation of socio-economic rights.