A/69/302 19. The economic and financial crisis has also increased migration from the most affected countries. From 2007 to 2011, the migration of citizens from Greece and Spain to Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development destination countries more than doubled, while the number of citizens leaving Ireland increased by 80 per cent. 7 20. Increased migration has led to a rise in anti-migration sentiment, which has resulted in greater discrimination and violence against migrants, given that they are portrayed as taking away jobs and draining social services in the host country. Immigration has, however, been found to have a minimal impact on unemployment of residents and a positive overall impact on employment generation and investment. 7 Currently, 74 per cent of migrants are of working age and the numbers are almost evenly spread out between genders. 5 Policies that favour diversity and the inclusion of migrants are key to facilitating their contribution to development and reducing populist negative representations of migrants. C. Why the human rights of migrants should be included in the post-2015 sustainable development agenda 21. Human rights are not reserved for citizens. They benefit everyone within a State’s territory or jurisdiction, without discrimination, irrespective of administrative status and circumstances. 22. Governments have already committed themselves to upholding human rights in numerous international treaties: they must implement such commitments in the setting of development priorities. How migration is governed — whether rights to move, live, work and seek redress are promoted, respected and protected — will contribute to determining the kind of development outcomes that can be achieved. 23. Human rights standards and principles provide specific guidance as to how goals, targets and indicators should be framed in the post-2015 United Nations development agenda. Since the participants in the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development proposed the inclusion of human rights in the sustainable development goals, support for the inclusion of human rights has al so been reiterated by the United Nations system task team on the post -2015 agenda, the Secretary-General (see A/68/292), stakeholders around the world in global thematic consultations sponsored by the United Nations, the High-level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda and the Open Working Group of the General Assembly on Sustainable Development Goals. The content of the present report — in particular the goals, targets and indicators — is drawn from those sources and from OHCHR and the Global Migration Group. 24. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has called for the inclusion of marginalized groups, including migrants, in the post -2015 agenda, saying that such inclusion is: “a normative obligation rooted in the prohibition of discrimination, but also a practical imperative for effective development strategies. It should by now be seen as axiomatic that no society can develop to its true potential when entire sectors of that society are blocked from contributing by legal, __________________ 7 6/26 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, International Migration Outlook 2013 (Paris, OECD Publishing, 2013). 14-59006