The Labour MP Jo Cox, who was killed in her constituency, is to have a street, square or building in Brussels named in her honour. Cox features in a long list of illustrious women drawn up by Brussels city council from which it will name newly created public places. Cox, who was stabbed and shot outside her constituency surgery shortly before the EU referendum in the UK, lived in Brussels for about six years. The College of Burgomaster and Aldermen of the City of Brussels adopted the list of women this week. “Although during the last decades a more egalitarian organisation tends to emerge at the different levels, representations in public space are predominantly masculine.

Source: The Guardian November 19, 2016 13:50 UTC