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Today, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) announced its most recent round of Bitcoin Development Fund grants at the Oslo Freedom Forum, per a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine.10 bitcoin, currently worth $704,740 at the time of writing, is being granted across 13 different projects around the world. The funds will be used to advance education for people living under authoritarian regimes, privacy and Lightning Network development, decentralized communications, and providing nonprofits and human rights groups with easier onramps to financial freedom tools, according to the release. 
The HRF's main areas of focus with this round of grants is countries and regions in Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa.