‘We must do more to protect children’s dreams’ – Beckham
By Reuters
21 November 2019 |
1:59 pm
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors David Beckham and Millie Bobby Brown commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child on World Children's Day.
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