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Technical note on the colours of the Red Cross and Red Crescent emblem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Ph. Eberlin
Ph. Eberlin*
Affiliation:
ICRC technical adviser
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Should the colours of the Red Cross emblem be standardized?

This seems to give concern to some members of the Red Cross movement and the ICRC has been asked the same question on several occasions. One proposal was that the colours of the emblem be defined scientifically and that only those shades which comply with the standards thus adopted be used for our movement's armbands, flags, distinctive signs, for the writing paper and the publications.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 23 , Issue 233 , April 1983 , pp. 77 - 80
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1983

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1 The question raised here is also applicable to the colours of the Red Crescent emblem. In this note, the words “Red Cross emblem” will always mean “Red Cross and Red Crescent emblem”.

2 We shall not, in this brief technical note, consider the use of the sign by the National Societies for purposes other than protection.

3 It must be stressed that whilst the sign is a means of identifying protected persons or property, they are protected regardless of whether they are wearing or displaying it or not.