'Refuge' has a number of meanings:
★ In a
building, an
Area of refuge is a location that may be used by occupants in the event of a
fire, if evacuation is not possible, either because no escape routes are available or the occupants are not ''mobile'' enough.
★ in the context of
Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, a refuge is a place intended to shelter movable
cultural property in the event of
armed conflict. Typically, places used as refuges for cultural property are constructed underground, and many such places are built into former
mining facilities which are no longer in use for industrial purposes.
★
Wildlife refuge
★ A Christian programme for homosexual teenagers run by
Love In Action
★
Refuge (Buddhism), the basis of being a Buddhist.
★ A book by
Terry Tempest Williams, also known as ''Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place''.
★
Refuge Records, a record label in the 1980s.
★ A 2 part 1999 ep of
Law & Order
★ A film written and directed in 2002 by Narain Jashanmal.
See also
★
Refugia