This session is built around a photo exhibition by Oxfam Magasins du Monde, created as part of its 2025–2026 adult education campaign. The exhibition explores gender-specific challenges and shows how Fair Trade can be a lever for women’s empowerment. At a time when women’s rights are increasingly being called into question around the world, it celebrates those who work every day to defend dignity, equality and social justice. Step into twenty personal stories, twenty women’s perspectives that reveal the often-unseen faces of Fair Trade.

Bridging India and Belgium, the exhibition highlights the diversity of women’s roles within this solidarity-based economy: craftswomen, directors, logistics specialists, volunteers and more. These paired portraits embody the collective strength of thousands of women committed to a fairer, more humane economy. Beyond stereotypes, discover how Fair Trade can be a pathway to empowerment, and what it tells us about gender-related challenges in our societies.

Expert guides will take you through the exhibition.
Afterwards, you’ll have the opportunity to join a dialogue with women fair traders from India and Cameroon (tbc).