The main topic of this thesis is refugee law and international protection of those individuals covered by it. In the introduction, the focus will be on conditions for acquiring a refugee status as well as persons to whom those rights belong and their relations with their receiving countries in relation to the events after 2015. In this thesis the manner of acquiring such status itself will be mentioned as well, referring to the Convention on the Legal Status of Refugees from 1951, that makes the basis for determining the meaning of the term refugee. Special emphasis in the recognition of international protection is placed on the most important condition justified justification of fear of persecution, citing individual examples from case law. Moreover, clarification on the differentiation from other legal terms such as migrant and displaced persons will be given. Therefore, in the introductory part, the conditions necessary for acquiring the status itself will be stated and explained emphasizing the most important condition, a justified fear of persecution, citing individual examples from case law. Furthermore, individual chapters will refer to the entities that participate in the persecution and provision of protection as well as the possibility of termination of the aforementioned refugee status. In the final chapters based on statistics and data analyze will also be analyzed events from the refugee crisis in 2015 will be discussed, and the conclusion of this work will discuss the application of law and the establishment of a system that seeks to regulate and harmonize refugee law.