E/CN.4/2000/16/Add.1 page 25 reduces these children’s chances of receiving a normal primary and secondary education and means they have no access at all to higher education. Since 1992, the law has forbidden ethnic data gathering so there are no recent statistics in this respect. However, according to 1995 figures, in 309 special schools Gypsies accounted for 41 per cent of a total of 27,365 children while representing only 7 per cent of all school-age children. According to some of the people who spoke to the Special Rapporteur, the situation is much the same at present. 112. The discriminatory treatment of Gypsy children in the Hungarian school system is particularly evident in the primary school in Pethe Ferenc, in Tiszavasvári district (in the east of Hungary). It was the practice in this school to separate Gypsy children from the other pupils and to forbid them to enter the school cafeteria and gym, or to organize promotion ceremonies, which were different from those of the other children. On 22 April 1999, in response to a complaint by 14 children of Gypsy origin, represented by the non-governmental organization Roma Civil Rights Foundation, a court found the school guilty of racial discrimination and ordered the Tiszavasvári town council to pay compensation of 100,000 forint (US$ 450). 113. The other problematic area is discrimination in relation to employment. Numerous complaints were submitted by Roma to the Parliamentary Commissioner in connection with employment: in several cases, when the employers realized that the job-seeker (whom they had found suitable for the job on the basis of a telephone conversation) was a Rom, they turned the applicant down, saying that the job was already taken. Considering the difficulty of proving discrimination in such cases, current legislation seems sufficient to restrict discriminatory behaviour. Article 75 of Government Decree No. 17/1968 on petty offences orders that discrimination against employees be punished. This regulation is implemented by either the notary of the local council or the so-called “labour inspectorates”. The inspectorates are authorized to impose a public administrative fine (ranging from 50,000 to 1 million forint) on any employer infringing this article. However, a different picture emerges in practice: no procedure for the implementation of article 75 of the government decree was initiated and no fine was imposed on employers in 1998 or in previous years. 114. As a result of discrimination, Roma are practically absent from the service sector in Hungary. There are almost no Roma taxi-drivers, shop assistants, kitchen workers in pubs and restaurants, or doormen at banks or hotels. Roma are employed as garbage-collectors, street-sweepers or factory workers. The vast majority, however, are unemployed. The unemployment rate among Roma is estimated at 60 per cent; outside relatively prosperous Budapest, areas with nearly 100 per cent unemployment among Roma are not uncommon, according to several sources. 3. Racist violence by the police 115. Hostility towards Gypsies would appear to be almost systemic in the Hungarian police force. In general, the police maintain that the Roma pose more problems than the rest of the population; the Roma, for their part, believe that they are systematically targeted by the police. Non-governmental sources told the Special Rapporteur that the general anti-Roma attitude of the police force is indicated by the high number of cases of off-duty police officers harassing Roma. On 31 July 1998, an off-duty non-Roma police officer from Budapest verbally and physically abused a group of women attending a conference in a holiday resort in Balanszemes. The officer