The World Economic Forum is underway and more and more attention is being paid to the issues of disabilities. A special press conference will launch the The #valuable Campaign aimed at engaging business leaders in taking bolder approaches and attitudes towards the employment of persons with disabilities.For change to happen, we need to create bridges and new coalition led by local Business Leaders

The World Economic Forum, the World Bank and the International Committee of the Red Cross are launching a High-Level Group on Humanitarian Investing to unlock new capital in fragile contexts.

Billionaire fortunes increased by 12 percent last year – or $2.5 billion a day - while the 3.8 billion people who make up the poorest half of humanity saw their wealth decline by 11 percent, reveals a new report from Oxfam today. The report is being launched as political and business leaders gather for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

"The eleventh edition of the Democracy Index reveals that political participation is on the rise in almost every region of the world. Whilst clearly disillusioned with formal political institutions, the population has turned anger into action, and turned out to vote, and to protest.The most striking advance has been in the participation of women " The Economist Intelligence Unit.