On the issue of equality in employment, the Commissioner considers that Armenia should take decisive steps to ensure equal pay and equal access to the labour market for women by combating the high gender pay gap and abolishing the list of professions declared hazardous for women.
There’s a section of Yerevan, originally zoned for public use, that has turned into an exclusive residential neighborhood for a number of former high-ranking Armenian government officials.
Kostanyan said that there wouldn’t be a major staff shake-up at the Yerevan Municipality as a result of the election.
Residents of Dadivank, in the north of Artsakh, had staged demonstrations for the past several days, demanding that Ohanyan resign because she was using construction material allocated by the government for personal use.
Gagik Tsarukyan, whose Prosperous Armenia Party came in a distant second in yesterday’s Yerevan Municipal Council election, today congratulated the winner, the Im Kayl (My Step) Alliance.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan arrived in New York on a working visit. On the evening of September 23 Pashinyan met with representatives of the Armenian community and U.S.-based Armenian organizations in New York.
The Im Kayl (My Step) Alliance scored a crushing victory in yesterday’s Yerevan Municipal Council election, garnering 81.06 % of the vote, according to the preliminary results from all 475 precincts.
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