Tufyal Choudhury is a lecturer in international human rights law at Durham University

Durham University

The University of Durham, commonly known as Durham University, is a university in Durham, England. It was founded by Act of Parliament in 1832 and granted a Royal Charter in 1837...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. His research interests focus on equality law and in particular on racial and religious discrimination

Religious discrimination

Religious discrimination is valuing or treating a person or group differently because of what they do or do not believe.A concept like that of 'religious discrimination' is necessary to take into account ambiguities of the term religious persecution. The infamous cases in which people have been...

. He is a director of the Discrimination Law Association, an adviser to the Discrimination Law Project for Justice, and to the human rights organisation JUSTICE

JUSTICE

JUSTICE is a human rights and law reform organisation based in the United Kingdom. It is the British section of the International Commission of Jurists, the international human rights organisation of lawyers devoted to the legal protection of human rights worldwide...

, and consultant on a variety of associated projects. His research into conditions for Muslims in the United Kingdom has been cited at a national level. He is a joint author of Democracy under Blair: A Democratic Audit of the United Kingdom.

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