A/50/476 English Page 23 60. In Hungary, Roma experience racist attacks and discrimination. Their life expectancy, access to education and income levels are distinctly lower than the national average. The unemployment rate among the Roma community is estimated at 70 per cent. In the Hungarian town of Gyöngyös on 14 November 1994, approximately 30 skinheads allegedly threw Molotov cocktails at the home of a Gypsy family, the Farkas, who managed to escape the flames. Witnesses of the incident were allegedly struck by two of the attackers. Mr. Farkas apparently attempted to report the incident at the nearest police station but was himself allegedly beaten by police officers. After numerous protests by Roma organizations, a preliminary investigation was initiated with regard to 12 youths aged 15 and 16 years. This attack was the tenth to occur this year in Gyöngyös against Gypsies. 23/ 61. The number of assaults committed against the Gypsy population in the Czech Republic is on the increase. In 1993, the Ministry of Justice recorded 46 offences motivated by racial hatred, 35 of which had been committed by skinheads against Gypsies. During the first half of 1994, "77 offences of this type were committed and 49 of them targeted Gypsies. All the above-mentioned offences are the subject of penal proceedings and in some instances the cases are already closed". 24/ C. Other cases of racism and racial discrimination 62. According to two surveys published by the British Medical Journal in February 1995, many medical departments in British universities are said to have introduced in 1991 and 1992 discriminatory ethnic criteria in the selection of candidates who had achieved the same results in competitive examinations, favouring white students, whose chances of being accepted are one and a half times greater than those of African or Asian candidates. 25/ 63. In its 1994 annual report, the Canadian Human Rights Commission draws attention to the discrimination encountered by aboriginal people in access to employment. "Despite increasing numbers of young aboriginal people ready to take their place in the workforce, their actual employment still lags far behind what it should be. This was again borne out by the latest data on employment equity in the federally regulated sector and the Federal Public Service". 26/ The report states that "The total number of aboriginal people working for federally regulated companies actually declined between 1992 and 1993, from 6,126 to 6,030. (...) The situation in the Federal Public Service is not much more encouraging. (...) the number of aboriginal people (...) increased between 1992 and 1993 and 1993-1994 by only 51 (...) Their representation thus remained essentially frozen at two per cent of the federal workforce". 27/ 64. In Australia, in spite of the 1975 Racial Discrimination Act, the situation of the inhabitants of the Torres Strait Islands and the aborigines is still cause for concern. The overrepresentation of aborigines in prisons is one of the most striking manifestations: although they represent 15 per cent of the prison population, they constitute only 1.6 per cent of the total Australian population. Aborigines are the most disadvantaged group in terms of access to housing, education, health care and employment. 28/ /...