Filomena Barros Reis is the Coordinator of the Education Unit of FOKUPERS or the East Timorese Women's Forum in Dili, East Timor. FOKUPERS is an NGO that aims to promote women's human rights and women's empowerment in general. FOKUPERS is currently running two short radio programmes on the United Nations radio and the FALINTIL radio. Issues like violence against women and women's position in the transition of East Timor are being discussed in these programmes.