Dipendra Uprety

I was born in Nepal in 1980. In 1998, aged 18, I moved to Lebanon where he was employed in the hospitality industry. While in Lebanon I met and married Priya, a domestic worker, also from Nepal. Together, we were involved in voluntarily assisting the Nepalese community by visiting ill-treated and battered domestic workers in the hospitals and prisons. Because of my work, I was made a representative of the Nepali Consulate. My wife continued activism and volunteered with the consulate. In 2012, we emigrated to Canada where we have continued to be active in fighting for human rights and justice for migrant domestic workers.