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