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Regulations on the use of the emblem of the red cross, of the red crescent, and of the red lion and sun by the National Societies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2010
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In its 1949 version, the First Geneva Convention for the amelioration of the condition of the wounded in armies in the field, distinguishes for the first time in its article 44 between the two different uses of the red cross emblem. On the one hand is the protective sign, which is the visible manifestation of the protection conferred by the Convention on certain persons and objects, essentially those which belong to the Army Medical Service, and, on the other hand, there is the purely indicatory sign, which indicates that a person or an object is connected with the National Society, but without the protection of the Convention. Article 44 also defines in a general manner the legitimate uses of the emblem in its two meanings.
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- International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 6 , Issue 60 , March 1966 , pp. 130 - 139
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- Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1966
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page 130 note 1 In its Resolution No. XXXII, the XXth International Conference of the Red Cross requested the ICRC to publish the text of this regulation, which thus became official. We now do so in discharge of that mandate.
page 131 note 1 For simplification, mention will henceforth only be made of the red cross, but it goes without saying that all that will be said about it applies equally to the red crescent and the red lion and sun.
page 131 note 2 The International Red Cross organizations and their duly authorized personnel have the right to make use of the emblem “at all times”, by virtue of article 44, paragraph 3.
page 133 note 1 Certain National Societies do not recognize this category of members.