81 alleged victims stated that they need psychological treatment or that the relationships with their families and colleagues and friends were affected as a consequence of their professions of reporters of Globovisión280. Moreover, they mentioned the several negative consequences that the attacks, insults and threats to which they were subjected, brought to their family lives, as well as, in many cases, the specific medical problems. 287. In view of the impairments in the personal and professional lives that the alleged victims declared to have suffered as a consequence of the proven facts and considering the contexts in which they occured, the Court considers that there are sufficient evidence to conclude that the State is responsible for the violation of its obligation to guarantee the right to mental and moral integrity of Aloys Emmanuel Marín Díaz, Ana Karina Villalba, Aymara Anahí Lorenzo Ferrigni, Beatriz Alicia Adrián García, Carla María Angola Rodríguez, Carlos Arroyo, Carlos Quintero, Ramón Darío Pacheco Villegas, Edgar Hernández, Efraín Antonio Henríquez Contreras, Felipe Antonio Lugo Durán, Gabriela Margarita Perozo Cabrices, Janeth del Rosario Carrasquilla Villasmil, Jhonny Donato Ficarella Martín, John Power, Jorge Manuel Paz Paz, José Vicente Antonetti Moreno, Joshua Oscar Torres Ramos, Mayela León Rodríguez, Martha Isabel Herminia Palma Troconis, Richard Alexis López Valle and Yesenia Thais Balza Bolívar. B.iii Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Woman 288. During the public hearing, the representatives alleged that “of the facts of this case mentioned in the application, […] 80% of them were committed against female reporters of Globovisión", including Mrs. Ana Karina Villalba, Aymara Lorenzo, Beatriz Adrián, Carla Angula, Claudia Rojas, Gladys Rodríguez, Jeannette Carrasquilla, María Arenas, María Fernanda Flores, Marta Palma Trocones, Mayela León and Yesenia Balsa. They further asserted that of the 12 women, some of them were repeatedly attacked on two, three and even four occasions. They alleged that, based on the foregoing, the State is also responsible for the violation of the right to humane treatment of those persons, "in relation to Article 7 of the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Woman, ratified by the Venezuelan State on January 16, 1995”. These arguments were repeated and supplemented by the representatives in the final written arguments, in which they also requested the Court to declare the violation of Articles 5, 13, 8 and 25 of the Convention, “in connection with Articles 1, 2 [and] 7(b) of the InterAmerican Convention” previously mentioned. 289. The representatives pointed out that 13 out of the 44 alleged reporter victims, which represent 30% of the attacked people, are women and they alleged that the physical and moral attacks the reporters suffered from “mainly responded to the gender". They argued that the attacks led by private individuals and state agents against the female victims had the “characteristic of and were committed under the aggravating circumstances […] of the 280 Cf. Affidavit rendered by Beatriz Alicia Adrián García on April 8, 2008 (records of evidence, volume XXXIII, pages 8508-8513); affidavit rendered by Carla María Angola Rodríguez on April 15, 2008 (records of evidence, volume XXXIII, pages 8774-8778); statement rendered by Carlos Arroyo (records of evidence, volume X, appendix 50 to the brief of pleadings, motions and evidence, pages 3063-3064); statement rendered by Edgard Hernández (records of evidence, volume X, appendix 50 to the brief of pleadings, motions and evidence, page 3055); statement rendered by José Vicente Antonetti Moreno (records of evidence, volume X, appendix 50 to the brief of pleadings, motions and evidence, page 3046); affidavit rendered by Martha Isabel Herminia Palma Troconis on April 8, 2008 (records of evidence, volume XXXIII, pages 8490-8492); affidavit rendered by Mayela León Rodríguez on April 15, 2008 (records of evidence, volume XXXIII, pages 8768-8772); and affidavit rendered by Richard López Valle on April 15, 2008 (records of evidence, volume XXXIII, pages 8795-8799).