The law as crowbar for the eradication of poverty

The UN Millenium Declaration states that poverty will be eradicated in the foreseeable future. To achieve this goal the article urges the international community to claim for the liability of multinational companies and western countries on the basis of both national tort law and international law. As poverty belongs to the legal realm of human rights, it is possible to attain its eradication by means of legal mechanisms at national jurisdictions.