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 ...

The first Geneva Convention protects the sick and wounded by giving protection to medical facilities and their staff and any civilians helping the wounded. The convention also recognised the Red ...

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 ...