Refuge

Refuge is a place or state of safety. It may also refer to a more specific meaning:

Safety

• Area of refuge, a location in a building that may be used by occupants in the event of a fire
• Bunker, a defensive fortification designed to protect people from bombs or other attacks
• Mountain hut, a shelter for travelers in mountainous areas, often remote
• Women's refuge, another term for women's shelter
• Refuge (United Kingdom charity), a British charity for female victims of domestic violence
• A place intended to shelter cultural property, in the context of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
• Right of asylum, protection of a person persecuted for political or religious beliefs by another sovereign authority

Nature and biology

• Wildlife refuge, a sanctuary or protected area for wildlife
• Refuge (ecology), a place where an organism can escape from predation
• Refugium (population biology), a location of an isolated or relict population of a previously more widespread species
• Refuge crop, a non-genetically modified food crop planted alongside a genetically modified one to prevent or slow the development of predators resistant to its modified properties by purposely encouraging the mating of species across said crops

Film and television

• Refuge (1923 film), an American silent drama film
• Refuge (1928 film) or Escape, a German silent film
• The Refuge (film), a 2009 French drama directed by François Ozon
• Refuge (2012 film), an American drama directed by Jessica Goldberg
• Refuge: Stories of the Selfhelp Home, a 2012 American documentary by Ethan Bensinger
• "Refuge" (Law & Order), a television episode
• "The Refuge" (The Outer Limits), a television episode

Literature

• The Refuge (novel), a 1954 novel by Kenneth Mackenzie
• Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, a 1991 book by Terry Tempest Williams
• Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Refuge, a 1988 novel by Rob Chilson

Music

• Refuge (band), a side project of the German band Rage
• Refuge Records, a 1980s American record label
• Refuge (EP) or the title song, by Rage, 1994
• Refuge, an album by Sons of Korah, 2014
• Refuge, a soundtrack album by Carbon Based Lifeforms, 2013
• "Refuge", a song by Psy from 4×2=8, 2017
• "Refuge", a song by Steve Wilson from To the Bone, 2017

Other uses

• Refuge, Mississippi
• Refuge, Texas, an unincorporated community in Houston County, Texas
• Eustache de Refuge (1564–1617), Early Modern French courtier, statesman and author
• A controversial evangelical Christian, "ex-gay" conversion therapy program for homosexual teenagers run by Love In Action
• Refuge (Buddhism), the basis of being a Buddhist

See also

• Refugium (disambiguation)
• Refugee (disambiguation)
• City of Refuge (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Refuge