protection, incompetence, hostility and indifference, difficulties gathering medical evidence and frustrations with the slow court process. 41 Despite these impediments, the majority of the criminal cases in the courts of the Northern region are of sexual assault or related cases. Judge Kasule says, “30 out of 50 criminal cases at my court are either of defilement, rape or murder but connected with some form of sexual assault”. 42 Notwithstanding these challenges, it is important that women and survivors seeking justice within their respective domestic legal systems build documentation on the outcomes and experience of each of these judicial processes. Such documentation will allow survivors to continue to advocate for addressing the challenges women experience in the process of justice. In addition, it will have exhausted domestic remedies, opening avenues of pursuing justice at the regional and international level. 41 ‘Uganda Doubly Traumatized, Lack of Access to Justice for female victims of sexual and gender-based violence in northern Uganda,’ Amnesty International, AI Index: AFR 59/005/2007, 30 November 2007. 42 Supra note 3, p. 22. 14 DOMESTIC JUSTICE PROCESSES FOR SEXUAL VIOLENCE | REDRESS