Peter Dupont (50) is a Belgian investigative journalist, columnist, author, and lector.
For the past 25 years, he has been working for several Belgian newspapers and magazines, covering topics like migration, environmental destruction, and human rights abuse in Eastern Europe, Africa, and South East Asia.
He has been working for six years with The Open University of Diversity, the umbrella organization of Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen, focussing on biocultural diversity and transdisciplinary collaboration.
Together with Dutch filmmaker Jacco Groen (Springfilm), Dupont just released ‘Children of the Cam,' an investigative documentary about webcam child sex tourism (WSCT) in the Philippines. His long-term infiltration of two Philippine networks live-streaming child abuse to sexual predators worldwide led to the rescue of 15 minors out of two cybersex dens. In trying to find the foreign clients, he collaborated with colleague Håkon Fostervold Høydal (Norway), Lotte Mathilde Nielsen (Denmark) and Ashley Argoon (Australia).
Dupont still works as a citizen informant for the Philippine National Police (PNP) and is a witness for some international law enforcement agencies, which he provided with data of hundreds of sex offenders. Currently, he is also working as an investigator for the NGO Terre des Hommes. He testified before a commission of The House of Representatives in the Netherlands, asking for a new legal frame and mandate for law enforcement to tackle webcam child sex abuse. His successful collaboration as a citizen informant with the PNP was presented as a promising way to tackle webcam child sex tourism at the 2016 Interpol meeting on Crimes Against Children in Lyon.
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