This thesis discusses about the Geneva Convention 1951 effects to refugee status towards the effectiveness of refugee protection. Refugee is the people who passing through the International boundary to protect themselves from the human right violation and conflicts. Meanwhile, Geneva Convention 1951 which focus on refugee protection has stated that the nations who has signed the convention
agreement have the responsibility to protect the refugee. The convention has been ratified by several countries. The researcher found that some of the several countries violate the agreement, but there is no concrete penalty. The research has been done in January. The method that is used is normative method, by interviewing one person from UNHCR Indonesia. The researcher gives a solution that the Geneva Convention 1951 reformulate the concrete penalty. Finally, the result of the research is that UNHCR also has no concrete penalty so that it builds school for the refugee to develop the effectiveness of the refugee.