Light-headedness often is caused by a momentary drop in blood pressure and blood flow to your head that occurs when you get up too quickly from a seated or lying position (orthostatic hypotension). Ongoing light-headedness may mean you have a more serious problem that needs to be evaluated.
Nadia is a member of the ethnic Kurdish minority Yazidi people, one of thousands who was brutally enslaved by ISIS in Iraq, who now bravely travels the world to raise awareness of the genocide.
World Nadia Murad Yazidis ISIS. As Nadia Murad, a 22-year-old Yazidi woman, addressed the United Nations on Wednesday, the silver nameplate around her neck caught the light. Spelled out in Arabic was the name of Murad's hometown, Kocho, from which she was kidnapped by Islamic State (ISIS) militants. After surviving three months in captivity, she has since become the public face of the thousands of Yazidi women and girls who remain in sexual slavery.