"There are hundreds of Yazidis on the border or in the camps," she told reporters in Vilnius on Monday after meeting with Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte. "Those who are trying to find asylum should be helped to find a save and legal way to get that asylum and not fall victim to traffickers again."
According to the human rights activist, the Yazidis trapped on Belarus' border with the EU after fleeing Iraq are genocide victims who have lost their family members and homes, and they need help.
It is dangerous for the Yazidis to return to Iraq where their safety is not being taken care of, she said.
Yazidis are a Kurdish-speaking ethnoreligious minority living mainly in northern Iraq.
Iraqi citizens are the largest group among the migrants who have crossed or attempted to cross into Lithuania, Poland or Latvia from Belarus this year.
The West accuses Alexander Lukashenko's regime of orchestrating the migration influx, calling it "hybrid aggression".
According to Murad, pressure from the international community is also needed to ensure Yazidi rights in Iraq.
"When working with the Iraqi government, make sure that the communities that suffered genocide and violence can be supported properly in their homeland," the activist said. "Support from the EU that goes to Iraq does not really get to the people that faced violence and live in camps."
"They were not protected when ISIS attacked, and they have not been supported after this genocide took place," she added.
Some Yazidis are still living in camps today, according to the Nobel laureate.
Murad was one of the thousands of Yazidi women and girls who were captured by ISIS and forced into sexual slavery in 2014.
Murad escaped from ISIS captivity and started campaigning to protect the Yazidi community of around 500,000 people in northern Iraq from genocide.
In 2018, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Denis Mukwege for "their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict".