Refuge
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Refuge is a place or state of safety. It may also refer to a more specific meaning:
- Area of refuge, a location in a building that may be used by occupants in the event of a fire
- 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
- Wildlife refuge, a sanctuary or protected area for wildlife
- Refuge (population biology), a location of an isolated or relict population of a previously more widespread species
- 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
- Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, a book by Terry Tempest Williams
- Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Refuge, a 1988 novel by Rob Chilson
- 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
- Right of asylum, protection of a person persecuted for political or religious beliefs by another sovereign authority
- Refuge (protestantisme), after a period of persecussion huguenots decided to move in adjacents kingdoms[1]
- Refuge (ecology), a place where an organism can escape from predation
- Refuge, Texas, an unincorporated community in Houston County, Texas
Film and Television
- "The Refuge" (The Outer Limits), an episode of the television series
- An 1999 episode of the TV series Law & Order
- The Refuge (film), a 2009 French drama directed by François Ozon
- Refuge (film), a 2012 American drama directed by Jessica Goldberg
Music
- Refuge Records, a record label in the 1980s
- Refuge (EP), an EP by Rage
- Refuge, a 2014 release by Christian band Sons of Korah
- Refuge (band), a side project band of Rage
- Refuge OST, a 2013 release by Carbon Based Lifeforms
See also
References
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