Support the memory of Labour MP Jo Cox
Everyone is shocked about last weeks assassination of the Labour MP Jo Cox. Many of us who worked at the UN will know Jo she worked for the aid groups Oxfam and Oxfam International between 2001 and 2009, serving first in Brussels as the leader of the group's trade-reform campaign, becoming head of policy and advocacy of Oxfam GB in 2005, and then becoming head of Oxfam International's humanitarian campaigns in New York in 2007. Her work at Oxfam, including meeting disadvantaged groups in Darfur and Afghanistan, influenced her political career. Jo's charity work later led to a role advising Sarah Brown (the wife of former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown), who was spearheading a campaign to prevent deaths in pregnancy and childbirth. Jo was national chair of the Labour Women's Network and a senior adviser to the Freedom Fund, an anti-slavery charity. She was elected MP for Batley and Spen seat being vacated by Mike Wood in the 2015 general election. Listen to ...