refuge

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
• Refuge (ecology), a place where an organism can escape from predation
• Refuge, Texas, an unincorporated community in Houston County, Texas

Refuge (aus lat. refugium) ist französisch bzw. englisch für einen Rückzugsraum oder Zufluchtsort, insbesondere:

• ein Refugium
• einen Refugialraum
• eine Schutzhütte

Refugee (englisch für Flüchtling) bezeichnet:

• einen indischen Film, siehe Refugee (Film)
• eine britische Progressive-Rock-Band, siehe Refugee (Band)

Als Flüchtling bezeichnet man eine Person, die ihre Heimat fluchtartig verlässt.

| Een vluchteling is iemand die zijn woongebied is ontvlucht uit vrees voor geweld of zijn leven. De meeste vluchtelingen komen uit gebieden met oorlog of dreiging daartoe, of uit staten waar grove schendingen van de mensenrechten plaatsvinden. De lidstaten van de Verenigde Naties organiseren sinds 2000 jaarlijks op 20 juni de Wereldvluchtelingendag.

Con refuge o refuge huguenot (rifugio ugonotto) si fa riferimento alla cospicua migrazione di ugonotti dopo l'editto di Fontainebleau (1685) che dichiarò il Protestantesimo illegale in Francia.