Jo Cox was a champion for Syrian child refugees

Jo Cox, the Labour MP who was murdered in her constituency in West Yorkshire, was a rising star in Parliament after the 2015 election. 

Cox was admired for her humanitarian campaigning for Syrian refugees and took a strong stance in favour of military action in the war-torn country against the opinion of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. 

For that purpose, she co-wrote an article in the Observer with Tory former international development secretary Andrew Mitchell calling for more UK action in Syria. 

During the House of Commons vote on UK airstrikes in Syria, she abstained, saying she "cannot actively support them unless they are part of a plan."

She often spoke on the need to help Syrian refugees in the besieged city of Aleppo:

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She was chair of the Friends of Syria All Party Parliamentary Group and co-chair of the Friends of Syria All Party Parliamentary Group.

Cox also backed the Dubs amendment for Britain to accept 3,000 child refugees with a moving speech: 

We all know that the vast majority of the terrified, friendless and profoundly vulnerable child refugees scattered across Europe tonight came from Syria. We also know that, as that conflict enters its sixth barbaric year, desperate Syrian families are being forced to make an impossible decision: stay and face starvation, rape, persecution and death, or make a perilous journey to find sanctuary elsewhere. Who can blame desperate parents for wanting to escape the horror that their families are experiencing? Children are being killed on their way to school, children as young as seven are being forcefully recruited to the frontline and one in three children have grown up knowing nothing but fear and war. Those children have been exposed to things no child should ever witness, and I know I would risk life and limb to get my two precious babies out of that hellhole.

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