Mexico Negro wages an ongoing campaign to see the UNESCO recommendations enforced in the areas of health, education and development. In the organization's view, this is the only way of restoring dignity and fairness to this marginalized community. It has also declared its commitment to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) and to raising consciousness about self, ethnicity, heritage, history and the importance for people to redefine themselves as persons who have the right to be recognized as integral members of Mexican society. However, 'perhaps their biggest challenge to the Mexican Government is for the inclusion of Afro-Mexicans in the national census so that there will be an official record of the number of black persons in the country' (Ramsay, 2016, p. 161).