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
• ', a 2012 American documentary by Ethan Bensinger
• "Refuge" (Law & Order), a television episode
• "The Refuge" (The Outer Limits), a television episode

• The Refuge (novel), a 1954 novel by Kenneth Mackenzie
• ', a 1991 book by Terry Tempest Williams
• ', a 1988 novel by Rob Chilson