Page "Jean-Bertrand Aristide" Paragraph 53

Under Aristide's leadership, his party implemented many major reforms.

These included greatly increasing access to health care and education for the general population ; increasing adult literacy and protections for those accused of crimes ; improving training for judges, prohibiting human trafficking, disbanding the Haitian military ( which primarily had been used against the Haitian people ), establishing improved human rights and political freedom ; doubling the minimum wage, instituting land reform and assistance to small farmers, providing boat construction training to fishermen, establishing a food distribution network to provide low cost food to the poor at below market prices, building low-cost housing, and attempting to reduce the level of government corruption.