Unheard narratives of sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) of adolescent girls of the Holy Cross College, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) of adolescent boys and girls are talked of phenomena. Youth studies capture SRHR perspective to a little extent covering college going adolescent girls of Dhaka city, Bangladesh. This study considers the adolescent girls studying in grade XI and XII at the Holy Cross College, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The study uses qualitative research approach with in-depth interviews, focus group discussions and free-listing to shed light on understanding the level of adolescents (girls) sexual and reproductive health rights and how these rights are practiced into their lives. The findings indicate that social stigma, religious superstitions as well as cultural rigidity hinder adolescents' girls to have secured and reliable sources of information on reproductive and sexual health and practices of such rights into their individual life. The constraint of the study is that it does not cover maleadolescents' students' perceptions on SRHR.