Policies around sexual and reproductive health and rights in Peru: Conflict, biases and silence* *This article is based on a longer study that was developed in collaboration with Sexuality Policy Watch, with funding provided by the Ford Foundation. For an extended discussion of the issues examined in this article, see “Sexual and reproductive rights policies in Peru: Unveiling false paradoxes”, which is available as part of the e-book, SexPolitics: Reports from the Front Lines , edited by Richard Parker, Rosalind Petchesky, and Robert Sember, 2007. This e-book includes a series of case studies, as well as a crosscutting analysis, focused on the politics of sexual health and rights in eight countries and two institutional contexts. SexPolitics can be found online at .