Promoting Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) to the Adolescents in Bangladesh: Policy Prospects and Challenges

Abstract

Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are a concept of human rights applied to the sexuality and reproduction of human beings. Most Bangladeshis, especially adolescents in rural areas, are still unaware of these rights for countless reasons. A significant barrier towards such awareness is created. There has been some research in recent times covering various aspects of SRHR in Bangladesh. Nevertheless, the element that makes this research unique is that it is aiming to analyze in a doctrinal or qualitative manner if the existing laws and policies are enough to ensure that adolescents have access to knowledge and information on SRHR, or whether any major or minor reforms to existing legal framework are necessary. The research would like to prove the necessity of enacting legally enforceable national policies to ensure that adolescents in Bangladesh have access to SRHR education, which is very important in protecting their sexual and reproductive health and well- being.