Red Cross and Red Crescent organisations may use these symbols in their logos because of their longstanding role in caring for the sick and wounded during armed conflict. The red cross emblem was ...

Geneva Conventions, cornerstones of international humanitarian law, turn 75 on August 12. With mass civilian casualties and ...

it's actually a protected logo, and its use without permission is forbidden by the Geneva Convention. The original reasoning for this was that the symbol should be almost sacred, so that even in ...