A new Egyptian initiative is calling upon women to wear 1960s-style dresses as a way to fight sexual harassment. The initiative, dubbed “Dresses of the Past When Our Streets Were Safe,” seeks to normalize the sight of women on the streets wearing dresses as it was in the 1960s, when sexual harassment rates were at their lowest.

Hadia Abdel-Fattah, the feminist activist behind the initiative, told Al-Monitor, “It is not about clothing, because no matter what you wear you will get harassed anyway. That is why we encourage women to wear whatever they like.”

The initiative comes as part of UN Women's 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, an international campaign taking place from Nov. 25 to Dec. 10. The campaign is an annual event in which individuals and organizations around the world call for an end to violence against women and girls.

Abdel-Fattah said that she and another activist organized an event on Dec. 8 in which a group of women took to the streets wearing dresses and were pictured in downtown Cairo by photographer Gehad Saad. She added that the photo shoot was offered free of charge to participants as part of the initiative, which aims to end the social acceptance of sexual harassment.