Jo Cox: Minority communities pay tribute to slain UK MP
Minority communities in Britain are in a state of deep shock and
mourning after the murder of Jo Cox, an MP who regularly spoke up for
their human rights.
As the nation reeled from the first assassination of an MP in more than 20 years, tributes for the 41-year-old mother of two flowed from the organisations she worked with - from Syrian refugees and Palestinian rights activists to youth campaigners and Muslim groups.
Cox, the Labour MP for Batley and Spen, was stabbed and gunned down on Thursday on the streets of Birstall, a West Yorkshire village in her constituency, fewer than five miles from where she was born.
In her political life, Cox campaigned for diversity; victims of the Syrian conflict; child refugees; Palestinians affected by the blockade of the Gaza Strip; and Muslims who suffered Islamophobia. She also worked with anti-slavery charity Freedom Fund and Oxfam.
"She was a tiny woman with a massive voice," Razia Jogi, a lawyer with strong links in the large Indian Gujarati community of Cox's constituency, told Al Jazeera on Saturday.
"She united in life and she's still uniting in death," added Jogi, who attended a memorial service in the northern English town on Friday evening.
"She took on plights which weren't particularly glamorous, that nobody really wants."
As the nation reeled from the first assassination of an MP in more than 20 years, tributes for the 41-year-old mother of two flowed from the organisations she worked with - from Syrian refugees and Palestinian rights activists to youth campaigners and Muslim groups.
Cox, the Labour MP for Batley and Spen, was stabbed and gunned down on Thursday on the streets of Birstall, a West Yorkshire village in her constituency, fewer than five miles from where she was born.
In her political life, Cox campaigned for diversity; victims of the Syrian conflict; child refugees; Palestinians affected by the blockade of the Gaza Strip; and Muslims who suffered Islamophobia. She also worked with anti-slavery charity Freedom Fund and Oxfam.
"She was a tiny woman with a massive voice," Razia Jogi, a lawyer with strong links in the large Indian Gujarati community of Cox's constituency, told Al Jazeera on Saturday.
"She united in life and she's still uniting in death," added Jogi, who attended a memorial service in the northern English town on Friday evening.
"She took on plights which weren't particularly glamorous, that nobody really wants."
Jo Cox: Minority communities pay tribute to slain UK MP
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