Rejimon Kuttappan

Rejimon Kuttappan is an investigative journalist and author with nearly two decades of reporting on forced labour and migration. He has documented forced labour in India's shrimp, steel, textile and sandstone industries, and his work helped put Indian shrimp on the US Labor Department's forced labour list. He reported for AP on Southeast Asian scam centres and writes for Al Jazeera and The Hindu. He worked with Human Rights Watch on FIFA World Cup workers and Hormuz-stranded seafarers, and with the ILO, Kelley Drye & Warren, Corporate Accountability Lab and Issara. His five books include Undocumented (Penguin) and River of Grey Flowers (Speaking Tiger). A Reuters and ILO fellow, he spoke at the UN Responsible Business and Human Rights Forum, Asia-Pacific, on fair work (2025) and India's Labour Codes (2026).