In pictures: Life in the camps

As delegates in Bonn discuss the future of Afghanistan, there are continuing concerns for the millions of refugees stranded in camps around the country and elsewhere.

Humanitarian organisations are worried about outbreaks of diseases such as tuberculosis and the risk of starvation as the Afghan winter begins to set in.

A refugee sits next to his makeshift tent in a camp in Dasht-i-Arzana near Mazar-e-Sharif in the north

More than 20,000 refugees have arrived at this spot to escape from fighting and drought

Children attend an open-air Koranic lesson at the Kacha Ghari camp in Peshawar, Pakistan

Children collect their plastic slippers after a lesson (left) and girls walk home after school (right)

A boy, accompanied by his father, has his hair cut in the open air

More than 7,000 newly arrived refugees wait for a place in Maslakh camp near Herat, western Afghanistan

The refugees came from the drought-stricken Badghis and Chaqcheran provinces in the north-west

Over 200,000 refugees are thought to be living in this camp