The Annual Report 2010 covers events and developments in the area of fundamental rights in the European Union during 2009. It is the first annual report to be published since the entry into force in December 2009 of the Treaty of Lisbon, which has significantly strengthened the protection of fundamental rights at a EU level. The report encompasses the full range of fundamental rights issues now covered by scope of the FRA mandate since it was expanded in March 2007. While the areas of the former EUMC mandate – namely racism, xenophobia, and issues related to migrants and minorities – still figure prominently in this report, there is also coverage of those broader thematic areas that are represented in the Agency’s Multi-annual Framework adopted in February 2008. These can be found in sections of the report covering, in turn: discrimination based on sex,disability and sexual orientation; the rights of the child and protection of children; immigration and border control; access to justice and victim compensation; participation of EU citizens in the Union’s democratic functioning, and information society, respect for private life, and protection of personal data.