A/69/302 5. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages 54. Migrants are often not able to enjoy their right to health fully owing to such factors as discrimination, language, cultural barriers or legal status. Migrants in an irregular situation, temporary migrant workers, migrant domestic workers and migrants in detention are among the most marginalized groups. 55. Many migrants travelling to their countries of destination face desperate conditions, hidden or travelling in cramped boats or trucks, and may also face sexual and physical violence during the journey. Upon arrival in transit or destination countries, migrants receive little or no health care. In addition, they are often seen as the cause of diseases and undergo compulsory testing for some medical conditions such as HIV, a situation that violates their right to informed consent, is discriminatory and is counterproductive to improved public health because it encourages concealment. 16 56. It is widely accepted that a healthy life is key to susta inable development. In the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, it is stated that health is a precondition for and an outcome and indicator of all three dimensions of sustainable development. The participants called for the full realization of the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health and for all workers to be provided with the necessary social and health protections. Research shows that migrants are able to improve the health standards of their families and that those involved in temporary migration are able to share health-improving practices with their families and local communities. 17 57. In its resolution 67/81, the General Assembly urged Governments, civil society organizations and international organizations to promote the inclusion of universal health coverage as an important element on the international development agenda and in the implementation of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, as a means of promoting sustained, inclusive and equitable growth, social cohesion and well-being of the population and achieving other milestones for social development, such as ed ucation, work income and household financial security. This concept should be implemented to ensure that marginalized groups, including migrants, are able to benefit from universal health coverage. 58. The goal should fully capture the right to health, which is an inclusive right extending not only to timely and appropriate health care, but also to the underlying determinants of health, including access to healthy occupational and environmental conditions and to health-related education and information, including on sexual and reproductive health. 18 This right should be captured in all other interrelated goals, including those pertaining to access to safe and potable water and adequate sanitation and an adequate supply of safe nutrition. __________________ 16 17 18 14-59006 See A/HRC/23/41 and paragraphs 25, 27 and 28 of the HIV and AIDS Recommendation, 2010 (No. 200), of the International Labour Organization. Dilip Ratha, “The impact of remittances on economic growth and poverty reduction”, MPI Policy Brief, No. 8 (Washington, D.C., Migration Policy Institute, September 2013). See Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, general comment No. 14, para. 11. 13/26