Clive Solomon

Dr Clive Solomon (BSc Med, MBChB, FRACS) has, throughout his career, worked as a surgeon, district councillor, hospital board member, and vocal  patient advocate. He is the 2012 winner of the NZARH Charles Southwell Award for Championing the Values of the Enlightenment.

His concerns span not only physical wellbeing. They embrace the ethical psychosocial parameters of humanity. This is the precipice upon which society so often teeters,  and from which it needs to be unambiguously recalled from the brink. Specifically, he campaigns not to excuse crime, but to end the use of prolonged solitary confinement in Oceania, arguing that it breaches the UN Mandela Rules and constitutes cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment.