The legal problem in this research is how the role of UNHCR in providing
protection against refugee residing in Greece. There are many refugees from
various countries who need protection from the UNHCR in Greece. The research
methods used in this research is normative legal research. Normative legal
research is research done or focus on the positive legal norms in the form of
international legal instruments relating to the cases in this research. In addition,
this research also used secondary data in the form of materials obtained from the
opinions of jurists and authorities either orally or in writing, and books of other
laws that have to do with the problems that are written in this research. In
normative research data used is secondary data, which consists of Materials
Primary Law: The Jenewa Convention on 1951 and New York Protocol on 1967.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Statute, Universal Declaration
of Human Rights 1948 and also Secondary Legal Materials which consist of legal
opinion obtained from books on international law and on international refugee
law. In addition, secondary law were also obtained from law journals, internet
website, and also a newspaper associated with the problem in this research. from
the data analysis has been attempted by either UNHCR provides protection to
refugees in accordance with their rights and obligations as determined in the
1951 Convention