Carsten Stormer

Author Carsten Stormer Aired on „Arte“ on 5/9/2025.

The following documentary aired on arte on May 9, 2025, and has been available in the arte media library since then:

For years, Priest Flavie Villanueva has been trying to bring one of Asia's most feared and powerful men to justice: Rodrigo Duterte, the former president of the Philippines. On March 11th of this year, the priest's tenacious work was finally rewarded: Duterte was arrested and extradited to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. For his bloody drug war, in which up to 30,000 people were killed by police and death squads, Duterte, the first Asian head of state, must answer for crimes against humanity.

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Author Carsten Stormer
Published on „Spiegel Online“ on 02/28/21

Schools closed, curfews for teenagers: For almost a year now, the Philippines has been under a continuous lockdown. And President Rodrigo Duterte? He advises parents: Put the little ones in front of the TV!

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Author Carsten Stormer
Published in „Der Spiegel“ on 07/06/19

For a long time, the Catholic Church in the Philippines remained silent on President Duterte's drug war. Too long, according to a missionary and a priest who are fighting on the front lines of this war for more justice and humanity. Because of this, they are being slandered, ostracized, or receiving death threats.

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Author Carsten Stormer
Published in „Cicero“ 05/2019 and NZZ am Sonntag

Hundreds of thousands of minors are sexually exploited in the Philippines: by sex tourists, family members, neighbors. The Belgian Peter Dupont has been hunting down the perpetrators for five years.

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Author Carsten Stormer
Published in „Der Spiegel“, May 25, 2019

For years, China has occupied islands, reefs, and atolls in the South China Sea, including the Philippine Scarborough Shoal. An elderly Filipino fisherman refuses to accept this any longer and is confronting the People's Republic.

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Author Carsten Stormer
Appeared in „Geo,“ 12/18

A Swiss activist disappeared 18 years ago in Borneo. He had helped the Penan forest nomads resist the deforestation of their habitat. The Penan's fight to preserve one of Earth's oldest rainforests continues to this day. Bruno Manser's legacy helps them in this struggle – but the mystery of his disappearance remains unsolved.

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Author Carsten Stormer
Published in „Der Spiegel“ 3/2018

The Philippines. For five months, ISIS held the city of Marawi, then it was liberated. However, there is a great danger that a new stronghold for Islamists will emerge here.

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Author Carsten Stormer
Published in „Stern“, Feb. 19, 2015

The Yazidi Qasim Shesho and his militia have been defying the Islamic State in the Sinjar Mountains for months. His sons shuttle between their father's war and daily life in Bad Oeynhausen.

Carsten Stormer (Zeitenspiegel) and Franziska Reich
Photos: Annibale Greco and Franz Bischof

Author Carsten Stormer
Published in „Nido“, 01/2015

Child marriages are commonplace in Nepal. If the husband dies, the child widows, the "Bekalayas," become outcasts.

Carsten Stormer (Zeitenspiegel), Photos: Poulomi Basu

Author Carsten Stormer
Published in „Neon“, December 2014

A year ago, Typhoon Yolanda devastated parts of the Philippines. For many girls and women, a second disaster followed.

Author Carsten Stormer
Published in „Neon,“ 09/2014

Millions of Syrians are on the run. But what happens to those who stayed? In Aleppo, former fighters are trying to save what cannot be saved.