Rita Segato is an anthropologist and decolonial feminist who wrote extensively on gender violence and on racial discrimination. She acted as Vienna+20 Ethical Tribunal’s expert (Bilbao, 2013), the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal’s judge on crimes against women in México (2014), the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Guatemala’s expert for the Sepur Zarco case (2014 to 2016), the Tribunal of Justice and Defense of Women’s Rights’ ethical expert at the Pan-Amazonian Social Forum (Tarapoto, Peruvian Amazon, 2017), and expert witness in two lesa humanidad trials for crimes of the dictatorial period in Argentina (2019 and 2021).