Maria Gabriella Lay

Maria Gabriella Lay has been a Senior Communications Officer in the Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour of the International Labour Organisation since August 1997. She is responsible for the management of the Global Campaign to Raise Awareness and Understanding on Child Labour (GAC), a project aimed at mobilising key sectors of society in the fight against child labour. As part of this campaign she designed a large-scale project named SCREAM (Supporting Children’s Rights through Education, the Arts and the Media), which aims at encouraging young people to participate in and commit to the global campaign by giving them responsibility and by recognising the value of their contribution. As Public Affairs Officer for the Child Rights and Policy Section of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), in New York (1992-96) and Geneva (1997), she managed policy framework relations with the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Maria Gabriella Lay is an Italian national. As Tenured Professor for twenty-one years, she developed programmes based on student’s ownership of the learning process.